It Aficionado Prints

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"

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

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

"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."

"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?"

Driverless cars rage.

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

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

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

Cellphone Islands

US v.s. Tech Giants

"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!"

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

Keeping all the balls in the air - skills

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

"What did you download at school today?"

'Yes, it computed the answer in a bilionth of a second and printed it instantly, but until I find my glasses...'

Bot Art: After da Vinci

"I finally gave in, I got sick of hearing, 'Polly want a podcast?... Polly want a podcast!'"