Meet David Shing, the incongruously titled Digital Prophet for
AOL. His appearance on MSNBC's The Cycle on Friday attracted
quite a bit of attention online. What he said, less so!  We have
more gadgets, as you may have noticed. And in introducing Shing,
MSNBC's Touré explained his worldview: "Despite all that
connectivity he's never felt so alone." Shing was there to talk
wearable computers — and not just Google Glass, but computers
embedded in your clothes and so on.  Today's wearables are kind
of refined to — if I wear my wearables today, I'll look like a
tribal leader. No kidding, man. ... [W]e will have biometrics
materials inside our clothes. We'll have smart devices that talk
back to us and they'll have built-in intelligence.  Shing writes
for AOL using that title of Digital Prophet, talking about the
future and such and I don't understand this look. I tried to
talk around it and not mention it, and, look, I celebrate
individuality and the right of everyone to be his own person,
but why would you wear y