At its annual Connect conference in Menlo Park, Meta offered a quiet but telling gesture toward the anxieties of the surveillance age: smart glasses without cameras. The move arrives as the company navigates a thicket of global privacy lawsuits and regulatory pressure, suggesting that the future of wearable technology may be shaped less by what devices can capture than by what they choose not to. Zuckerberg's vision of two billion glasses-wearers eventually upgrading to AI-powered eyewear frames this not as a retreat, but as an invitation—a lower-stakes entry point into a world where artificia