Overheard this guy the other day, telling his friend that he'd had a serious argument with his partner the night before. "But it ended when she came crawling to me on her hands and knees", he said."What did she say?" asked the friend.
"She said, come out from under that bed, you coward!"
Technologies are rarely, if ever, truly foisted upon us, however much that might feel to be the case. They arrive because, as a society, we accept, welcome and ultimately normalise them, often to the extent that they become more or less compulsory. Before mobile phones and social media, we never really recognised how narcistic we are, how desperate we are to escape the reality of our surroundings. Jim Al-Khalil - ‘What’s next?’
Here's one Gerald East sent me recently:
What do you call those things you blow into and make a wish?
Breathalyser?