Worst. Cyborg. Ever.

Facebook’s new smart glasses will have you thinking like an algorithm

In the future of the past, cyborgs were different. In the The Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors played Steve Austin, a test pilot who suffers severe injuries after crashing an experimental plane. He loses both legs and an arm, and is blinded in one eye. Austin then becomes an experiment, himself — he is rebuilt as a cyborg (at the cost of $6 million). As a cyborg, Austin has bionic arms and legs as well as a sophisticated camera for an eye. With his new superhuman limbs, strength, and speed, Austin is dispatched to fight crime around the world.

The — let’s call it ‘promise’ — of the midcentury futurists wasn’t so much that everyone would become a superhuman cyborg crime fighter. But the Six Million Dollar Man was at least his own platform. Looking at how things are going now, it’s difficult to imagine that, if we are on our way to becoming cyborgs, we will ever be able to say the same thing about ourselves.

Other than create privacy nightmares, what do these glasses really do?

Because here we are, nearly 50 years later, and the future of the human-computer mashup isn’t looking quite like we might have expected. The future as it’s apparently imagined now by the seemingly…