Technology & Internet shower thoughts 💻
Phones, wifi, and the internet judging your search history.
A large download button and a small close button are the signs of a bad website
If you think 50/50 are pretty high odds, you never plugged in a USB
We went really quickly from "you shouldn't use your phone near a gas pump" to "you can use your phone to pay for your gas".
We haven’t seen a YouTuber or any social media personality get old, from their 20s to 50s because of how young the platforms are relative to us. Therefore we have no idea how they will handle that and whether these people will get other jobs or how drastically their content will change.
If you have 12 followers on a social media platform, you're unpopular. If you have 12 followers irl, you are the messiah.
To some generation in the near(ish) future, the reason for saying things like "roll up the window" and "hang up the phone" will be nothing more than useless interesting historical facts.
Area codes are no longer where someone lives, but instead, where they lived when they got their cell phone.
You can clearly tell when a show taking place in the "present day" was made by looking at what kind of phones the characters have
We tease our parents for having to help them unplug or restart computer stuff to fix it. Our kids will probably tease us for trying to fix all computer problems by unplugging and rebooting.
With the significant decline in global air pollution, it's a really good opportunity for Google and Spy satellites alike to take new pictures of Earth
We live in an age where humans are expected to work like computers and computers are expected to work like humans.
All these websites asking you to accept cookies are conditioning people to accept anything on entry.
British people need to regularly clear their browser biscuits.
Every time we invent a new technology, it becomes a metaphor for everything. E.g. if you have a hammer, everything’s a nail. Psychology used to be really into ideas about stress and pressure (this came from trains and steam-power). More recently, we say ‘recharge your batteries’ etc.
It took 20 years but we've finally come full circle from phones that were too thick to fit in your pocket, to phones that are too long to fit in your pocket.
Growing old is infuriating because you have to scroll farther and farther down to select your birth date on websites.
We are already being suppressed by an AI, as a bot is determining whether a thought is original or not.
When it comes to remembering passwords, often times muscle memory > actual memory
Rick Astley is the only person who can Rick-Roll anyone without an internet connection
Google Earth is going to be a treasure in 100 years.
We live in a society that has normalised social media so much that it is an achievement to not have it
Centuries later, some of our social media accounts will be owned and displayed by online museums.
The hotter you are the more pictures you need on apps like Tinder for people to believe you’re you and not merely another bot-account.
Typing a whole paragraph without really thinking or looking at the keyboard seems normal, but reciting the whole keyboard beyond QWERTY seems impossible.
If Google decided to hand out birthday gifts, they could easily find the perfect gift for almost anyone.
We're all chasing internet-points that aren't real, to make us popular to people we don't know/care about.