Wow! Sherry Turkle and Jaron Lanier appear in different reports on one hour of the PBS NewsHour. Marvin Minsky, too.

I've been curious about Google's Glass for a long time now. AJ Jacobs really got my attention this morning with a coupler of assertions in this tale of his own experience with Glass: You cannot stop technology and his final We are on the long slow march to becoming part Android.  (Well, alright, when he spoke about how polarizing Glass is he said "You either love it or hate it—It's like Hillary Clinton or cilantro.") As if to confirm his prediction Jefrey Cufaude and Eric Topol made sure I paid attention to an article in The New York Times this morning:

Digitizing creativity http://t.co/ZbsF6D6iKO "like having someone else embedded in my own brain" pic.twitter.com/AcuPplFwlY

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 30, 2013

In The New York Times today, a notice for Madeleine George's new play contains this sentence

In multiple plotlines, the play examines the fear of depending on another person and the allure of using machines to meet emotional needs.

I feel so out of touch.

I read Alone Together with disbelief, and only acknowledge its findings with reluctance. Here's more evidence, from Fast Company. that Sherry Turkle got it right.

As more advanced robots enter more parts of our lives, especially in the workplace, there could be growing emotional and psychological consequences for their human caretakers. Julie Carpenter, a human-robot interaction researcher who did her doctoral work at the University of Washington’s School of Education, recently found that out in a series of interviews she did with 23 military personnel who operate robots that dismantle explosives and other weapons. In their responses, it was clear they had begun to view the robots as extension of themselves.

San Pellegrino has found a way to let virtual tourists walk the streets of Taormina, Sicily. Too bad the tours are so short and available only through Facebook. There are lots of places I'd poke around in this way.