Meta and the Battle for Smart Glasses | I'm a Creep
6/10/202649 min
It’s 2023, and Meta Ray-Bans have just helped Mark Zuckerberg turn a corner. After his disastrous investment in the Metaverse, Meta’s AI-enabled smart glasses are a welcome victory for the company. But the competition is coming. And so are uncomfortable questions about mandatory data-sharing, worker exploitation, and federal agents using the glasses illegally. If smart glasses are here to stay, the question becomes… is that a good thing?
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Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Business Wars ad free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. [dramatic music] It's June 2025. In a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles' Cypress Park neighborhood, an immigration raid is underway. [car door closing] [shouting] Agents in dark sunglasses and bulletproof vests hop out of their cars, shouting orders as they look for people to apprehend. This sight has become common around LA. The Department of Homeland Security has sent swarms of federal agents into the city, some from Customs and Border Patrol, or CBP, others from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. In less than a month, around two thousand local immigrants have been rounded up. It's a time of fear and uncertainty, made worse by the agents' anonymity. Many of the names and badge numbers aren't always visible, and their faces are often hidden behind baseball caps, hoods, and masks. It's nearly impossible to know who the agents are. In this Home Depot parking lot, a crowd of observers has started to gather, recording everything they can to document what is happening. As the border patrol agents try to push them back, they keep recording,