Glasses are the future, but that future is bleak

The future is smart glasses

The future is smart glasses.
It's obvious to me. This is going to happen.

We wear prescription glasses for vision correction.
We wear shades when its sunny.
We know what glasses feel like. 
Unlike the time the phone was first introduced, glasses already exist. 
Humanity is just making these glasses smarter.

And the tech underneath is so, so cool.
But I don't want that future.

I think of the late 19th century when pocket watches became an everyday object.

"These kids, they're not free; time controls their life", the older people must have said.

And yet, the ability to meet people at a specified time is useful.
It was a net positive in progressing civilization.

Then came the mobile phones and smart watches.

We live with them. We live by them.
I can find information, make notes, set alarms, talk to anyone I want.

Sure there are bad things with mobiles.
We're constantly distracted, we've lost the ability to navigate, we no longer need to remember stuff.

But overall, it is a net positive in progressing civilization.

Glasses though?

Ah.

I don't want to be the classic old person who gets cynical about how the future is bleak.

But every con well outweigh the pros of a society wearing smart glasses everywhere they go.

Privacy? Never existed at the helm of powers, but now it's dead at the level of everyday people.

They record everything.

Memory? Your companion can now remember and replay everything.

With phones we forgot phone numbers. With glasses we'll forget names.

Confused? Don't be about anything, anymore.

Your smart companion glasses will see everything you've seen and provide optimal responses.

They're incredibly convenient tools. 

I'll buy them when they go mainstream too.
But I'm scared future generations will forgot humans have brains.

We're on track to becoming cyborgs.

And smart glasses are a big step in it.