Somewhat. Its what's looking like one of the final moments of this era in human behavior.

History can be divided up a number of ways, and yes I mean Western history for this argument, but a very effective way to help understand what the future will hold is to divide the past up by what caused actual changes in lifestyle on a mass scale. A better phrase would perhaps be fundamental. Let's go through a quick list.

The most obvious one is agriculture. You change society from hunter-gatherers to agriculture and thus civilization, great.

Then pottery. You can now store things. Awesome. From pottery, writing. Writing lets you keep records, that means taxes and that means a government. These are the three base changes, really what'd be considered the most important ones in Western development (and relatively fundamental to each culture).

These are technologies which fundamentally change how you live your life, not just make it more convenient or fit in to the existing model of the world, but fundamentally alter what is happening to society. The printing press is a good example of these fundamental shift technologies; it means writing is no longer sacred, it means everything can now be checked, and it means you no longer have to memorize everything. Its all written down.

In recent times, we've had less. The closest one that can be said for certain is the advent of the industrial revolution. Everything since the Industrial Revolution has been recognizable to people in our society; if you look at life before it, you'll have a hard time actually understanding what it'd be like to live without regular work for regular wages. The Industrial Revolution changed us fundamentally, because it meant we had regular jobs and no longer made everything by hand.

It changed how you married too, because it brought about trains, and trains mean travel. That means you can marry outside of the village, and if you really feel like it, run away. Marry for love, if you want. That's historically a rather new concept for people who aren't aristocrats; relationships for love and not just for social obligation or economic reasons.

There's another factor that's key to all of these technologies or developments; they all came from their own times. The Industrial Revolution did not come from the mentality of an industrialized society, it created that mentality. It was someone taking the medieval workshop of the time and taking it to its logical conclusion, and in doing so, they changed everything. That's Google Glass.

Its recognizable technology. Cameras, computers, wifi, heads-up-display, voice activation. None of these are particularly revolutionary technology, nor are they put together in a way that is entirely foreign to us. Its glasses. So what? It just takes what we already have - portable computing - and takes it to its logical conclusion: a hands free, augmented world.

Now, its not going to be the final product that does this; very few things are, but its part of the next step of augmented reality that is going to alter how we function day-by-day. It changes the last bit of our memory from what we had prior to the advent of writing, because after all, if you can always just google it, who cares about memorization? As the technology advances past the glasses, to the point where it can't be seen, to the point where it's integrated in to our every day lives, what then? I can't even speculate what that world is going to be like; if I try it's all just science fiction.

There's going to be a time when I can walk in to a store and I've already paid for the products that a computer tells them that I am going to buy based on the data it has stored for the past four years of my purchases, and while I say thanks to the cashier I'm going to be watching a stupid video on YouTube while chatting with a friend. Maybe it'll end up being the end of socialization as we know it, maybe it'll change how we pay, but Google Glass is that first step towards augmented reality and the world that lays beyond that is so foreign to us in this moment that even my speculation, simple as it is, is going to end up being irrelevant.

We haven't had something like this for a long time. I could do a whole dissertation on the subject, how our basic functionality hasn't shifted for over a hundred years, and now we're about to. There's maybe 30 years before what we do changes. Think about that.