In the two years since its public debut, Google Glass has gone from being seen as a potentially game-changing wearable computer to being a hopelessly dorky piece of technology that even diehard Google fans are having a hard time stomaching. Over at CNN, Google X exec Astro Teller explains the reasons that Google decided to create Google Glass in the first place and he inadvertently shows us why this iteration of Glass is falling flat on its face so far. “Technologies often fail not because they don’t function; they fail us because we know they’re there,” Teller writes. “When a technology reaches this point of invisibility, it has reached its ultimate goal: becoming part of our routine, with no compromise
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