William Gibson tried what is Google Glass

And for the first time, I saw that the mirror glasses were surgical lining, their silver metal rising smoothly from her high cheekbones, as if sealing her eyes in her sockets. I saw in them the double reflection of my face.

"Johnny Mnemonic", 1981

Well-known modern science fiction writer William Gibson, founder of the cyberpunk literary style, author of the Cyberspace trilogy (well, Neuromant just read everything) touched and tried the device a few days ago (and Google, it seems, has nothing to do with it) which he, in fact, meant, though not in such an explicit form, of course, in the distant 1981.
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One of the current owners of Google Glass (judging by the guy's Flickr profile, Joe Kendall, and he is a typical geek), who was among the select testers who received the gadget last week, attended the public event - a meeting with a writer in the New York Public Library. .

There is no exact description of how exactly everything happened - except for two photos: the one in the title, and this one, where Gibson seems to include glasses:



Obviously, only one thing: the famous writer tried to put on Google Glass and put his opinion about them in 140 characters - futuristic:



In other words, although Gibson did not torment his glasses thoroughly, trying to get a taste of what he described more than 30 years ago, he still liked it - unexpectedly for him.

[ Flickr ]