Google co-founder Sergey Brin feels ‘emasculated’ by smartphones

Rob Williams
independent.co.uk
March 1, 2013

Google’s new internet glasses could hit the market this year freeing up web-browsers from “emasculating” smartphones, the search-engine co-founder Sergey Brin has said.

Brin referred to smartphones, many of which run using the Android operating software his company developed, while talking to the Technology, Education and Design (TED) conference in Los Angeles about the future of Google.

At the conference the Google co-founder talked about the way in which people stare down at devices: “Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people? It’s kind of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do with your body?”, he asked.

This article was posted: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 12:35 pm

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