Tech Begrudger Gifts

"Hi, Phil! I'm the home siding telemarketer you hung up on two minutes ago!"

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"You know, there are other emojis."

"But how do I accomplish that in 140 characters or less?"

Statue of Liberty with satellite dish and laptop spying on the World.

Grandma's caf

Twitter censorship

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

"This next one is a typical blues number about exceeding your data plan limit, cracking your ipad screen, and losing your new ear buds."

Modern Day Kids Playing 'Telephone'

"This is System One and I am holding the beta for System Two."

It tells you the time? That's all it does? Well, isn't that just the cutest little thing?

Spooning

'No no Mr. Peters, you are not being outsourced. You are being virtualised in 'the cloud'.'

"This is Alexander. He’ll be heading up our hacking division."

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

Someday

"What the hell sort of convenient new feature is this?"

'I got a job working for Google Earth.'

"Look. He's just created his first text output object."

"I'm the innocent victim. School has gotten harder, and my cell phone has gotten dumber."

The emperor has no phone!

"Ruddy AI. Bad enough to be replaced by a computer, never mind a COFFEE MAKER."

Better Living Through Technology

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

NHS computer: Kaput.

Screen Time at the Dining Table

"Are you George or his AI replacement?"

"I'm an atheist. I don't believe in programmers."

Musk's Twitter

SF NO

'I got a new lawn-mowing app for my cell phone.'

"Is this in case the electric grid goes down and we can't text or tweet?"