Culture
How to Make Google-Glass Users Really Sad
Shut off their techno-goggles without them knowing how, or why.
Omer Shapira is a software artist who makes neat stuff like a four-dimensional video game and a machine that creepily narrates recent cyberattacks (what The Awl has dubbed the "Internet Terror Phone").
Shapira sometimes presents his creations at the semiannual exhibit of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, which gathers the school's makers and geeks to demonstrate the latest in tech-art awesomeness. But lately, the 29-year-old Brooklyn resident has noticed a different sort of attendee at these events – Google Glass-wearing interlopers, who ask the students various permutations of the question: How do you plan to monetize these inventions?