
“The Glass app is also being heralded as a step forward in ‘machine-human relationships.’ With recognition services like Google Now and Siri, when computers and human users talk to each other, the computers will be able to respond not only to the content of the user’s words, but also to his tone, his feelings. This should be a real marvel. As you’ve no doubt already realized, the emotion-recognition tool is all about reduction. It shrinks human feelings to simplistic labels. Therefore, what machines say back to humans will be something to behold.”
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/insanity-new-google-glass-app-will-read.html
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