Technology Leader Mugs

Melinda Gates

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

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

'Being the boss's yes-man used to be easier. Now you also have to 'like' him on facebook, follow him on Twitter, link with him on linked-in...'

'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.'

Mac OS 20

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

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."

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

"I'll be glad when they invent PowerPoint."

"Remember when we kicked him off Mars?"

'Hey, what happened to my cookies?'

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

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."

"Thanks for considering me for the job as head of cybersecurity, but I already hacked into your network and gave myself the job."

Cloud Computing.

"Elon Musk is buying rope and walnuts."

Lord Avariss - Captain of Industry

"Please forward all my tickets to the auto manufacturer who made this self-driving car."

"We're looking for an accountant who can use ChatGPT creatively."

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

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

'Here comes Mr. 'Smarter-then-you'.'

"Amazon wants to open a facility here due to our friendly labor environment."

My First Bitcoin.

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

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

The power of the brain

"I think I know what your problem is. Not enough PR."

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"We can do it on the net now... so it's off to the knackery for you."

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.

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