The future is fidgetal Frustration with technology is driving our new scatology
The future is fidgetal
"Technology, and the hype that surrounds it, is changing the way we speak. But we dont have to turn into drones, all spouting the latest i-word. Chris Bowlby says its time for the techno-bullied to fight back with their own subversive speak.
With the online Oxford English Dictionary recently re-launched and on the look-out for new language, maybe its time for a counter-revolution.
Can we create a new vocabulary that expresses not marketing mania, but the downside, the frustration, the terrible things we sometimes suspect modern technology is doing to us?
When your cursor makes you a curser, do the necessary words come to mind?
Lets start to talk about the crazily fidgetal, the MisApps, mobile drones and Skypeochondria that afflict us all.
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