Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers

Paul Miller explores how we’ve tried to become more than human:

Presented to me was beautiful future, already existing in microcosm. Students, I was now aware, were roaming real hallways somewhere in Massachusetts, wearing real head-mounted displays, connected to real backpacks that carried portable computers. To me it didn’t really matter what any of them were actually doing with their wearable computers, what was important to me was that they had them. Wouldn’t a glorious future flow naturally from there?