Info-age Explorer Gifts

"Where the conspiracy theories of the right overlap the conspiracy theories of the left, you'll find Richard."

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

'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!'

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"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.'"

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'Here's MY information highway!'

'I'm just not sure how much more I can teach you.'

Weird things I do because of the internet

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

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

Your Future Home.

'You've got, like, a Feng Shui problem with your pancreas, dude.'

'Can I download that as a PDF?'

New Age Store.

"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.'

Thinking with the left side of the brain/Thinking with what's left of your brain.

You know you're getting up there in years when your birthday cake requires that extra box of candles....

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

"The Internet ate my baby!"

"Meeting old relatives...is like peeking into our future."

'I couldn't remember your exact age.'

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

"I was doing well in school and planning to be a computer programmer - but somewhere along the way I must have taken a wrong turn."

Modern Life Blues

'I'm growing mini human brains from stem cells.'

"The Bluetooth Special comes with a side order of Wi-Fi."

Statue of liberty selfie

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."

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