Information Age 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.' "

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

'Here's MY information highway!'

"Did you get my tweet?"

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

'Can I download that as a PDF?'

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

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

Press Any Key. No, Not That One.

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

"The Internet ate my baby!"

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

Modern Life Blues

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

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

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

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

Statue of liberty selfie

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

"Stop! Information overload. I need to rebuffer."

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

'That book is still floating around the system.'

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

"Restless spirit, we don't know who or what you are, but thank you for your amazing Wi-Fi, and for keeping the signal strong."

"Buy my data $20"

Customer help - jargon talking i-diot.

"Your confirmation number is 7913842461. To hear this information again press 1."

"Did you get that text I sent asking you to turn around?"

"All the better to ignore you with."

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

'There's more information available now than ever before. I can only block out so much of it.'

The six stages of hard drive death and dying.