Don't you? I sometimes think about time travel. I'd love to go back in time to see what it was like. But what if the reverse happened?
These are a few perfectly normal things I have said this morning.
"They texted the link for the app"
"I got a DM - she loves the wii".
"Where's the remote?"
"Google it".
"Is the roomba charged?"
"Tweet the photos and I'll retweet them".
And that was on a Sunday morning. Not a bit like at work where conversation is peppered with words such as jpg, vector, pixel, low-res, die cut, crop marks, html, em space, head section, browser testing, kerning, pms, eps, url, css and so on and so on and so on...
Yesterday, I wondered what people from another era would think about our language these days when I said:
"What I like about Tweetdeck is the way that I can follow all my Twitter accounts, with the timelines, DMs and mentions. I can tweet and retweet, search profiles, follow or unfollow. It connects with Facebook and LinkedIn too - which is great because I can Tweet FB messages and post to LinkedIn and Twitter at the same time. I like the way latest messages show in the popup at the top of my monitor. And because I've set up Twitterfeeds I can keep an eye on all our clients' social media from my sandbox account..."
It all made perfect sense but grandmother wouldn't have understood a word.Then, I interupted myself and said:
"Where's my iPhone? I need to photograph this place and send it to Flook".
Then, the conversation turned to Yelp and Foursquare and Bing and Qik...
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PS. Something that would amaze my grandmother is this:
While I was typing the above, my son in the UK texted me a photograph of my granddaughter. I (in Fort Lauderdale) immediately texted it to 'imself who is in Daytona today. All of thirty seconds after the photograph was taken in the UK and it's already in Fort Lauderdale and Daytona. And we take that for granted!
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