Telecom Trendsetter Gifts

'He loved mobiles.'

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

Mac OS 20

'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.'

Investments - Founders Bear and Bull.

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

You're telling me not to choose sides between Google and Apple. Precisely. Computer Villa. Stay neutral. Continue to support both companies. Emotionally. Right. By buying as much as you can from both companies. Doesn't that only benefit you? Heretic. Absolve yourself by upgrading your phone! Computer Villa.

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.

"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.'

'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.'

"Indeed - you're Mr. Gurkenman! After all the 200m meetings I remembered you much smaller!"

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

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

'Stocks shot up. . . no one on the committee could understand a word that Bernanke was saying.'

"What do I do - I'm a mouse pilot, like everybody else."

'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.

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

"Online Data 5000 powered by teenage girls"

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

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

Buzzfeed does The Bible: 10 commandments that will blow your mind.

"I'm not sure cuteness counts as a core competency? but hey if it gets hits, you're on."

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

"I love my new texting app, it automatically selects peoples preferred pronouns."

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

The Design Artiste

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

'Here comes the new kid.'

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

Facebook in the Boxing Ring

'The bouncing dot.com. bomb.'