Digital Age Gifts

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind

"Honest, D-D-Dad. My report card's 'in the cloud.'"

"Did you get my tweet?"

The Modern Apple

'I am the 'man with no name', and also the 'man with no e-mail address'.'

'Dad, how old were you when you started noticing HD?'

Mobile connections

"My parents call me their, 'Postcard to the Future'."

"There's no such thing as 'bad publicity'." "All traffic is good traffic."

"You can access me by saying simply 'Agnes.' It is not necessary to add 'dot com.' "

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

"Would you relax? They never look up."

"Looking at you, the moon and beyond, don't you think we could start a blog?"

A secretary at a desk with a nameplate the says Dot Com.

'Can I download that as a PDF?'

"This is not what I meant when I said you needed to practice your play fighting..."

'Don't worry about the thumb sucking...she'll be texting with it soon enough.'

'The doctors say I have a rare illness that turns people into birds - it's untweetable.'

Press Any Key. No, Not That One.

Modern Life Blues

"Wow, these e-readers take forever to burn..."

"If he has more than 20 followers on Twitter we call him a 'celebrity'."

'We're beta testing Goo-Goo Glass.'

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

"I wasn't copying off others. I was just crowdsourcing the answers."

Modern Portrait Gallery

"It says 'Click here to enlarge.'"

"I love my new texting app, it automatically selects peoples preferred pronouns."

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

"I hope you're not reading fake news."

"These feelings of yours aren't unusual - in fact, several of them have Web sites."

'I don't care what your chat group says. I say you're becoming overly dependent on technological gadgetry.'

"Don't be a dummy, Justin - You gotta learn your ABC's so you can Google stuff."

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

"All the better to ignore you with."