It Aficionado Gifts

Trying to switch on the computer.

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

The Computer takes a drinks break.

'We've got a cloudburst here...it's raining stats and logs!'

"But you said that to make it start, I had to 'Boot it up'!"

"I can't find my other boot. I need to be rebooted."

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

"I guess it's ethical. Let me run it through my 'Ethics Check' app."

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

"Meet the author"

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"I need a deeper access to his brain. Only google has the records."

Ascent of Machine.

Computer Science Class 10101010101.

'...and in 1/100000 of a second, it can compound the programmer's error 87,500 times.'

"If you're smart enough to design a robot to do your homework, then you're certainly smart enough to just do your homework."

'We need to change our luck. Let's move our headquarters to Redmond, the home of Microsoft.'

"It seems as if the people taking my software class are getting younger and younger."

"Hey, remember a few days ago, when all this was unacceptable?"

'Oh, and this ringtone is an app that alerts me when a fly ball is headed my way.'

Driverless cars rage.

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

US v.s. Tech Giants

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Listen to this: 'Technology reduces the time we spend on a given task, but increases the number of tasks we're expected to do.' Sounds like a no-win situation to me!"

Another Turning Point in the Industrial Revolution. Ford Motor Co. On second thought, let's put the cars on the conveyor belt.

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

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

Cellphone Islands

Keeping all the balls in the air - skills

"What did you download at school today?"

"But if you change your system preferences to match mine, is it really love?"