Digital Age Observers Mugs

'I don't think those apps have made Junior smarter.'

"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.."

"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.'"

"Would you relax? They never look up."

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

Weird things I do because of the internet

"Oh, Frank, look! He's sending his first tweet!"

Two Generations of Readers

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

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

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

"No, I don't play. I just watch people play on the internet."

Press Any Key. No, Not That One.

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

"The Internet ate my baby!"

"We do have on item the internet hasn't already beaten into the ground, ad nauseam."

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

Modern Life Blues

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

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

"She reminds me so much of myself at her age."

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

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

'It's no use! His computer tablet has replaced his blanky!'

"Ok, maybe this isn't happening."

Modern Portrait Gallery

"It says 'Click here to enlarge.'"

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."

"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.'

"Go ask your search engine."