Innovation Critique Mugs

'Understand that if you work for me, and you have one of your 'fresh ideas', I'm going to ignore it. At least until the next Board Meeting - when I'll present it as another of MY great, innovative visions for the future of the company!'

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

Crap from the future.

'Tech stocks dropped on the finding that technology isn't neccessarily the best solution to everything.'

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

"AI chat bot"

Social media and censorship...

Bureaucrats held up by the workers.

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

Modern Life Blues

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

Feel alienated by technology? Tell me more. Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.

'Dear sir, thank you for your idea of a helicopter ejection-seat, but...'

"We're having a lot of trouble with this model, sir - it's lasting indefinitely."

'With all these mega mergers between electronics and telecommunications firms, I just got an obscene email from the toaster...'

"Frank, I need your help. The computers are down, but I was told you know how to multiply two numbers together."

"My kid could have done that with AI."

"Do you remember when families used to get together and fight at Christmas?"

'It's been going on for three years. When can we tell Scott it's really a shredder?'

"It's a flip phone. I guess we can document this as an ancient, archaeological discovery."

"Well, by that logic no one would ever shave a clock onto a monkey."

Bad Office Planning

"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."

"I don't care if it does have wifi. . . it's a vegetable peeler!"

"He's our new trend-spotter?"

"How does one experience the ultimate selfie? Swallow your cell phone."

"My battery died too. Wanna talk?"

The nurse of the future

'Sorry...I don't do hugs!'

"They hired a cat to distract them from thoughts of change."

"To give it credibility let's tell the boss we stole our business idea from the Japanese instead of thinking it up ourselves!"

"It's structured as a set of two parallel stories that no one would ever want to read."