Consider how light travels through glass. When light hits the atoms on the surface of the glass it is absorbed and then re-emited to nearby atoms which then do the same. By the time the light has travelled through the glass it is hard to consider it the same light that entered, even though the pattern is maintained. So when looking through glass the light has been altered and manipulated and seeing through glass, could in one sense, be compared with what happens with television viewing.

Place a pair of regular glasses on and look at something about the size of a movie screen. While holding your head still move your eyes around the rim of the glasses. Notice how the movie screen is smaller than the area that you are looking through in the lens. Once, see through liguid crystal screens, or whatever technology allows us to achieve this concept, is established, a home television will seem very small in comparison.

What would life be like if the equivalent of a movie theatre view, along with all cable channels and the internet, were resting on the bridge of your nose, at all times? Much information and knowledge would be available that would not be available in many normal situations at this time.

In many SciFi movies, we the audience are privy to a cyborg's visual experience. The cyborg typically see's what we see but with the addition of --INFORMATION OVERLAY--. To overlay and combine with normal sense data information about what we are looking at, could become a plus to human experience.

Not only could the glasses walk us through most every complex skill imaginable, but we also may find extra information on the most mundane and banal subjects. For instance, suppose you are out on a walk in the park and you turn your cyberpedia sensitivity on high. Look at that tree and a complete description will -overlay- the visual experience. See a hill? Your flooded with geological data and particular histories of this region. Knowing what you see, then, may become rather addictive.

Not only will the answer to most questions become nearly instantly available but it will be superimposed right over the real world. Wallpaper the real world with anything that is known. Isn't that what the world is already like? Imagine a short trip.

Imagine riding along a freeway far out in the country. Scenery on both sides of the highway stand out - nature. As you approach the next city what shows up along side of the road? SIGNS!!!! Billboards and signs galore but you are still able to drive well with all of this visual noise. Is this how it will be with The Glasses? Will reality become littered with signs and information about everything in the visual field?

Information has always been available but we had to go to a library or some source to pick it up, in the form of black marks on white paper (coded rerepresentations of events and phenomenon). The information has always been somewhere "over there". This will not be the case with the glasses since most available information will be there on the base of our noses, and there at all times, -no closing hours-. It will no longer be unnessessary to make location changes in order to find the info that we need.

Up until now we have retrieved information that we need from certain locations. Then we either had to memorize it or bring it with us to the location where this information was needed to perform the desired actions. The Glasses will combine the needed information with the location in a way that will allow each of us to be experts on the scene. (Or at least like having an expert there whispering the next move into our ear)

Putting the world on the brim of our noses will allow us to bypass many of the complications that result from the situation geography revolving around the availability and places of information. Thus, with the arival of The Glasses, will begin the end of our dependance upon the location of information as a determining factor on how we use this information!!

The transition will be as revolutionary as the telephone's ability to allow people to communicate over distances that took much longer before thes devices existed. Once these glasses can communicate with remote computers, in a wireless fasion, we will have all knowledge available at all times. This will change many situations and allow for the emergence of The Onboard Human Computer. Our task will be to learn how to be around the answers to every question without having to go through the process that we do now, going to places to get ahold of this information.

A conflict will arise within educational institutions over how to manage this increased availability of all information at all times. Should students be allowed to adapt to having all of the information available without struggling to find it? Should students be able to answer questions with information that happens to be on them? Henceforth the educational process will shrink to such a degree that human beuaracracies may find it hard to "fit" in the institution.

If miniture video cams were put in these glasses one could be more prepared to explain his or her whereabouts. In a legal dispute this kind of information could be supplied by simply playing back the time in question. As the legal system adapts to this situation, radical changes in evidence and testimony could ensue. A person who did not have the glasses on, during a specified period, could become suspect since every minute was not accounted for. People will begin to feel uncomfortable, with peers and the laws, if they cannot either have their activities recordered or have these evidences that could easily mute a potential conflict.

All the syndromes and tribulations written about on subsequent pages truely begin with the emergence of these Glasses. For instance; consider the effects of the availability of so much information on the internet and the conflicts that are forming up around it. Much more so that the library and all knowledge rests on the smeller.

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