This came up in a pub a few days ago, and one guy piped up to say "If I see anyone staring at me while wearing one I'll hit them".
The guy next to him laughed and said "Brilliant, then he can kick your ass, film it, and put it all over YouTube".
When it comes out, I'm going to buy one, and I'm going to wear it everywhere. I'm willing to bet that no one says anything, and that those that think about doing so won't. People say whatever they want on the Internet, or around friends at the pub, but in the real world they won't bat an eyelid.
Well, I didn't mean just friends. If you do something other people don't like or something that is socially weird, the average person (friend, stranger, etc.) will have a lower tendency to associate with you.
As much I see the usefulness in Google Glasses, this is how its mostly going to end up. People especially your co-workers will become less open and careful around you since everything they say or do can be recorded and used against them. Why would they risk losing their job over some out of context comment or inside joke that you have a copy of.
I think people's reactions to Glass pretty cleanly divide into two camps by their reaction to "you could be being recorded by anyone at any time":
A. those who actually find this to be a novel problem unique to Glass, and
B. people who have assumed that since inconspicuous recording of others has always been possible by, say, someone wearing a wire, it was a factor that is unable to be discounted from one's daily activities, and thus it was best to just act as if it were always the case unless one has taken specific steps to guarantee one won't be being recorded. (People with the security mindset, in other words.)
The latter group don't seem to have any problem with Glass: they already had their freak-out long ago when inconspicuously recording others around you became possible. Making it easier doesn't change anything for them; it just gives the power to record others around you to people who don't really have a strong motive to use it. The real "attackers" (in the cryptographic sense) never needed it to be easy; they had the motivation and the resources to use the clunky old methods.
I do agree that it is independent of glass, but glass is part of the ongoing trend of extensive recording of our lives with and without our consent. Technology changes everything and as you are saying, people need to adapt.
It's interesting that the most recent presidential election in the US was influenced by a video recording of one of the candidates taken without their knowledge (the 47% comment by Romney). I think it's safe to say that this happened in 2012 because video recording devices are more common and smaller and that google glass and similar devices will only increase that trend. It's kind of like how the Nixon Kennedy debate being aired on TV changed american politics forever. And how "video killed the radio star."
The guy next to him laughed and said "Brilliant, then he can kick your ass, film it, and put it all over YouTube".
When it comes out, I'm going to buy one, and I'm going to wear it everywhere. I'm willing to bet that no one says anything, and that those that think about doing so won't. People say whatever they want on the Internet, or around friends at the pub, but in the real world they won't bat an eyelid.