Ok, given the replies I'm getting to this tweet, I'm going to clarify my thoughts on Zuckerberg, the…

Published on 22 February 2016

Ok, given the replies I'm getting to this tweet, I'm going to clarify my thoughts on Zuckerberg, virtual reality glasses, etc.

That the general public reacts with outrage, and decides to freak out and make comparisons with Big Brother and 1984, sure, why not.

But when you work in the Web, you should have the keys to understand this image. You're the ones who know exactly what it represents.

What does it represent? If we stop playing the whole global conspiracy and reptilians thing, what do we actually know?

We know it's just a crappy, useless headset from Samsung, unveiled last night to make up for the blandness of the brand's new smartphone. A vague technological "diversion" of little interest that was sitting there on the seats of the high-tech journalists, and that at best will be fun for playing Minecraft while moving your head like a lunatic.

These glasses aren't a machine that sucks out humans' souls to feed Zuckerberg's Machiavellian plans to destroy the world. That would be giving him too much credit.

It's just one more tool, not even, let's say rather an interface. Certainly no more dumbing-down than a TV or a smartphone. And I consider that yes, working in the Web or in new technologies, and being afraid of a new tool or of the staging around a keynote and a single man, is weird.

For my grandmother to freak out, that's ok. For journalists to write alarming pieces relaying how "ALARMING" this photo is, that's ok too, you've got to get the clicks. But you, well, you shouldn't, because you know what's behind it. The ponderous staging, and above all the totally lame glasses. On the contrary, you should be the ones reassuring people and communicating about the limits of such a tool, and why not about the positive uses you can make of it (not much really).

By Paingout