Whether or not people will be cognitively disadvantaged without smart glasses is debatable. Recent studies from Microsoft and MIT released this year have reported that habitual AI users may experience declines in critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills.

In many ways, we’re living in the world that Mark Zuckerberg built. No other person is as responsible for social media ’s rapid ascendance into ubiquity over the last two decade. The platforms he runs — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp — see more than 3 billion users total every day, and create billions in quarterly profit for corporate parent Meta.