I have issues with face recognition. While I'm not face blind, I have issues with remembering faces. This also cascades into remembering information about people.

A local face matching system, that can flag pertinent facts to me would be life-changing.

I refuse to let the likes of meta data mine me however. I also don't want to be in the same boat as the people currently abusing the glasses already.

If you took Metas glasses and removed all options to exfiltrate data from them, and run a local model on them - they would be a great tool! The issue is mainly where all that collected data gets sent - if it can't send data (maybe allow web search using an API which only allows normal search terms, not stuff like BASE64 encoded data), then nearly all of the privacy issues go away, and they could still be really handy.

It is an active decision of Meta to make these things as invasive as they can get. We should demand better.

We could also go back to hunter-gatherer times and have a mortality rate in the thirties.

Technology and innovation arent inherently bad, especially if they have many potential uses. The problem arises when adding the human element of how its used.

On that front... right now I dont think a use case has been proven for wide use of a lot of recent technological innovations. They are investor (and/or pervert) bubbles that are liable to explode soon.

I cringe at the thought of blanket bans being seen as a solution instead of a temporary patch, as its really just trying to ban aspects of human culture without directly banning (or relearning) it. Which just means those awful aspects will just find another avenue and we end up playing whack-a-mole instead of actually trying to better the world.