Glass Discussions

I'm active in several discussions about Glass online and recently a couple questions came up where I shared fairly long comments. To try and keep together some of what I'm writing about Glass in one place, I'm adding them here.

The first question was from a UK firm that asked where people saw Glass going in healthcare.

I wrote:

I work for a Community Health Center in the United States and have recently gotten Google Glass. We've been having lots of discussions about how we hope to use Google Glass.

Enhancing our Telemedicine program
(See http://quality.chc1.com/echo/ for more information about our Telemedicine program)

Making our EHRs available to our medical providers via Glass, including improved ways to do screenings and enter information into our EHR system.

Using Glass as an advocacy tool to help people recognize the social determinants of health around them.

The second question asked what markets were likely to be largest for Glass, did people think it would be law enforcement? I replied:

My father-in-law is a retired Federal agent.  He is very excited about Glass from a law enforcement perspective.  I work in health care, and I'm very excited about it from that perspective.  Friends work in marketing and creative services and are very excited about it from that angle.

I think it is way to early to try and guess which market will be biggest.  If I were guessing, I might go with health care, because it is such a large market.  As a nation we spend a lot more on health care than we do on law enforcement, unless you include the full defense budget.

I also think it is useful to look beyond the current Glass prototype.  Where do you see this going?  I tend to think of Glass in terms of wearable computing.  If we add devices like Fitbit and Pebbles into the same class and ask where this class of devices is going, the question gets even more interesting.

To sum it up, I'd take an old saying and twist it around for Glass, Follow your interests and the market will follow.

What are your thoughts?