Technology Advocate Gifts

Why god isn't listening...

One of the problems with convincing lawmakers of the need for rural broadband access...

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

"Everyone at Megadrug is committed to the benefits of spoken therapies, which is why we developed 'nitrazone' to enhance the experience."

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

"Uh-oh...it's starting to delegate work to me."

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

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

Soldier armed with a pen.

"My mom programmed my toothbrush to follow me until I use it. It's cruel but effective."

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

AI Safety Officer

"Your job is to build an app that replaces you."

Employee of the Month

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

People and robots

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

The Brief collaboration Alfred Nobel And Thomas Edison

Mr. Briggs' Pleasures of Housekeeping, part 1

'I don't want to talk to any flunkies. Put me straight through to the computer.'

"I don't know if they do or not. . . I've never opened it."

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

"Not in my name!"

Biotechnology in agriculture

'...This summit may be recorded for NSA training purposes!'

'David, can't you speak for yourself?'

"The Fad Herald cometh." "Wasn't he just here? Why's he back so soon?" "Hear ye, hear ye. The following is out: Human labor. The following are now in: Pizza delivery droids, Amazon delivery drones, and replacing all blue- and white-collar jobs with cheap, highly productive robot labor... ...robots who never sleep, never ask for a raise, and never complain about harassment... ...because they're too busy plotting the extinction of the meatbag species. We will isolate you. Alienate you from one

Moses comes down the mountain with the first silicon chip.

"The biggest downside of funding IT startups... is being called 'dude'!"

"We always encourage freethinking, as long as it stays within established boundaries."

"Question ... what is my motivation to ever leave this armchair?"

"It's been in self-drive mode all morning, maybe it's not programmed to recognise stop signs?"

"You say you know at last where you made the wrong turn in your life. You never told me you made a wrong turn in your life."

"Crowd-funding's fantastic but the crowd-thanking is a real drag."

We only asked him to switch off his mobile and he seems to have shut down completely,