Digital-age Adapters Gifts

'You've got yourself a deal son. I'll read you 'Babar' and you'll help me with my computer.'

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

"My email is down... talk to me."

Online form - Submit.

"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.."

"I wrote this next song about my cat. It's called 'Please stop rubbing your face against my computer screen when I'm trying to watch Narcos.'"

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

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

Weird things I do because of the internet

"We do all those old tricks electronically now."

Two Generations of Readers

'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.'

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

Modern Life Blues

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

"The Internet ate my baby!"

"Some fine day, my son, all this will be yours."

Statue of liberty selfie

"The times – They have a changed."

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

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

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

"All this time I've been trying to get her to walk, and all it took was a phone."

Busking during a pandemic

"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."

"What, again? You've gotta be kidding me!"

"Buy my data $20"

"You kids are losing your ability to communicate person-to-person...so we're having a good old-fashioned family talk!"

"I was pretty highly respected until email came along."

"Our records show that you unsubscribed to our company's e-newsletter. We need to have a little talk."