Tech Revolutionaries Gifts

Digital Revolution

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

"So, what does everyone think of XX81's suggestion for increased funding into AI research?"

'I think the new V. P. of Global Development is here.'

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

Internet.

"Remember when we kicked him off Mars?"

What've you been up to since college, Lemont? Oh, I became a journalist … had a kid, blah blah … but I wanna hear about you, Rudy. Grigori Rasputin. How've you been all these years? How's your Uncle Mort? Are you a Russian spy? Boop boop boop. How'd that stomach-tumble-translator startup you founded in the nineties go? Wait ... what did you say you became? What do they have on President Trump? How's your cat? Boop.

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

Cloud Computing.

"Elon Musk is buying rope and walnuts."

'Hey dude, just got the SMS of the Wild...'

Bluesky helicopter evacuation from X

'I hope you don't mind me bringing a few medical students in to see you. '

'The next big thing is ultra nano.'

Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

"We think your telephone is a great invention, Mr Bell, but is a bit basic. How about adding a phonograph to it?"

"Pretty impressive for a product of a 3-D printer."

"It called a smart phone. Cool, but no service."

The power of the brain

An Intimate Union forms between Napster and the Pygmy Sub-Area of Central Africa...

My First Bitcoin.

"In other news, oil and gas prices became irrelevant today when scientists announced that pretty much anything can run on caffeine."

"Write about robots."

"You know if we market it right, this thing could spread like the wheel."

"Hey Dolly, get back here!"

"Sorry guys, but your 'magic mind-reader' doesn't seem to be working."

'Wheel.'

The Year 3010: Dismantling the now so out of date human model.

Mark Zuckerberg

"The Internet has totally revolutionized the way white guys get rich."

Two words, boss: Virtual reality. We glue virtual reality goggles to our coffee mugs. Come again? When patrons sip their Himalayan mochas, they'll think they're dangling from a cliff in the Himalayan mountains. People will come from Miles around! People will throw up for miles around. We'll give patrons mops that double as virtual reality hockey sticks. This conversation is virtually over.

'Boss, there's union guys out there organizing the robots.'

"My business is less bricks and mortar and more coffee shops and laptops. I sell NFTs."