Waking Nightmare

This http://youtu.be/GrfXtAHYoVA (and this http://youtu.be/a6cNdhOKwi0)
terrifies me.  Today's technology leaders envision a future where pretty bubbles and always-on connectivity guide you through every step of your waking world.  Google's project Glass and Microsoft's Vision depict tech. devices embedded in glasses and on every surface.  These projects aim to replace deliberative human thought with constant, consumeristic impulse.  Notice in the Vision video, the office worker sees an ad, and donates to a cause without pausing to evaluate the organization it comes from.  In Google's Glass video, the wearer lets the device guide him through a city, a task which formerly required minimal effort, into a book store, then the device finds the book, enables friend stalking, then shares the location and information.  The future, as envisioned by the tech giants, is one of no thought, no divergence from consuming.  Voluntary constant surveillance tempered with helpless dependence upon the enabling technology will usurp freedom of action and thought from the user.  From all users.  From all enablers.  I am afraid for the future.

(Funny, how even now, as I frantically type this on a Mac in a closet on Google's own service, that I can only voice this fear to an audience at the whim of tech giants.)