Most Americans Do Not Want Google-ish Glasses, Drones, Or Lab-Grown Meat

Disruptive technologies are all well and good, but being totally out of touch with what people actually want may not be the best innovation strategy.

If aliens came to planet Earth for a day, but could only explore the confines of a locked, featureless room and Twitter, they might imagine a world in which every person documents his life in data points, drones zip around the airspace, and families argue about Google Glass at the dinner table. Maybe some families do, especially if they live in the Bay Area, but a new Pew Research Center study finds that most Americans aren't as thrilled about new technologies as Twitter's unrepresentative sample.

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