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Buzzwords et al



As what's in vogue goes the bay area is no exception.  With its hubris as the innovation epicenter it is constantly challenging the status quo on many things, habits and language itself.

After all IM and its associated slang was born here.  That said there are many contributions that the valley makes to the lexicon and spoken word all the time including some gems that I want to share....


  • Disruptors - Everyone's uncle it would seem is busy disrupting something.  Interrupting someone back in the day was considered rude.  But disrupting is cool baby... or as the teeny bops might say 'kewl'.  Electric scooters and child like im-pedi-ments are all over town doing the physical disrupting.  Traffic that is.
  • Diversity - Oh I forgot about everyone's aunt.  We are very sensitive to gender equality here.
  • Digital exhaust - this blog included are examples of the amount of insane and deranged commentary that is filling up petabytes of server farms and clouds.  The rain fall when it comes is not going to be pretty.
  • Free range - speaking of farms there are those that animals roam free.  Free on the range, but not quite out of range.  Oh no we want those chickens.  Organic the better.
  • Range anxiety - speaking of 'being out of range' the average cell phone user is permanently in a state of panic wondering if they have enough bars and battery.  Would not want to miss gloating about my new Ferrari on Instagram now would I?
  • Detox - after consuming all the organics there is still a lot of toxicity in the people around the bay. The only solution is to get a detox.  Not exactly sure how it works but must be something like decaf?
  • Emojis - Finally when the slang was not enough there came pictures to depict the varied moods that the valley elites might be experiencing at any given time.  Sometimes it is more than one moods.  Cartoon images here we come.  
Verbal interaction is already dwindling with the preponderance of ways to text, IM, other glass sheet enabled keyboards of whiling time.

Pretty soon the keyboard as we know it will bite the dust the way a fountain pen did.  It will simply be artificial intelligence guessing what emoji you want to beam your equally vacuous friend across the street and voila.  Your friend across the street will feel the strange sensation of a buzz in their brain using the embedded bluetooth antenna and will be at a loss for words.  Buzz or otherwise.

Brave new artificially smart world to compensate for all the natural stupidity that will prevail.

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