Digital Dialogue Explorer Pillows

Chat Bot

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'3 Second Loading Zone.'

'My name's Google and I'm being inundated with requests for information about every damn thing imaginable, by people I don't even know...It's endless!'

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

Girl with smart phone enters door that says "Social Media Studies"

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

Likes: $2.

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

'I can't wait 'til hunting is googling and gathering is calling out for delivery.'

"I don't know what else we can do. He won't look up from the screen!"

Text Culture

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

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

"But how do I accomplish that in 140 characters or less?"

"Pokemon...Pokemon...Pokemon...."

'There's no art to the mind's construction on Facebook, Macbeth.'

Real Life/Surreal Life

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

'Hey...remember T.V.?

'I bought him to retrieve my e-mails.'

"I find it so stimulating to learn new software."

'This computer has a fast modem, the latest Pentium, increased RAM, a huge hard drive and broadband connections. Only one problem...slow pointer fingers.'

Computer games

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

"Teleconferencing makes it just like they're in the room with us - things are unclear and difficult to understand."

'An encyclopedia? I don't know. Let's look up what it is on Wikipedia.'

"I had an Android, then I switched to an iPhone. Then I went back to an Android, then I switched back to the iPhone. . ."

"Yes, you were born into the era of passwords and user-names. . . why do you ask, Mycat_2014?"

'After researching our dream vacation online with reviews, commentaries, we cams and pictures, we felt we'd been there and didn't need the trip!'

Downloads.

"Baldo, why don't you turn that computer off and do something else?"

Travelogue