Tech-averse Trendsetter Gifts

Screen Addiction

"Mom, please shake my chair. I'm taking a virtual school bus ride before class begins."

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'You'll have to take an online company aptitude test, but if you're the designer we're looking for, you've already designed an app for that.'

"This new chair has the smoothest 360 swivel action on the market!"

'Ted, I really wish you'd update your presentation software so we could do away with the 3-D glasses.'

The city of San Francisco switches from cable cars to satellite dish at a cost of only $79.99 a month for the first six months.

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

'Is this the new input device?'

'Hey, what happened to my cookies?'

'Yes, it is large for a smart phone, but then it does do absolutely everything.'

'Do you have anything a little longer in the leg ?'

'Doesn't bother me. All my money is in carbon-cleanup technologies.'

And so, Rudy unwittingly became an investor in The Infant Restaurant Critic. At first, he was furious having lost his weekly paycheck. But then it dawned on him: He was back in the dot-com game – for the first time in 20 years. He was practically a venture capitalist! I'm a social media investor. It's a multi-platform play with, obviously, huge mobile capability, global reach, soaring audience share. Revenue model? What? Huh? Beat it.

The Design Artiste

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"Tarzan no want computer."

"I'd like to get my withdrawal in either cryptocurrency or social-media exposure."

"I'm not particular, I'll take any job that will replace a human."

'Here comes the new kid.'

'Oh, relax. Stopping to ask how to use the GPS does not violate the male decree against asking directions.'

Pretty Soon: Robot pets won't provide the valuable life lessons flesh pets did.

"Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, is a nerd!"

Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. There's an app for that.

"This update includes minor improvements."

"The phone takes some effort to unfold completely, but the 24" screen makes it all worthwhile.

Merger at 28th and Lex

You Shouldn't Have

"It's expensive because it connects to the internet."

'The really scary part is that he is the new head of human resources.'

Nethead strip: Fashion sense

'The bouncing dot.com. bomb.'

"Alexa give me one reason to get out of bed today."

'We don't call it planned obsolescence anymore, we call it an upgrade.'