You know you've been reading too many techie articles when...

[ksmith]

TV on with the sound off. Commercial comes on for one of the telecommunications companies. As it ends, I see the phrase "Download your contacts," and the first thing I think of are those devices I've read about that may eventually be able to "print" things like batteries and human tissue, and if they can do that, well, downloading the design for your contact lenses and printing them on such a device should be the proverbial piece of cake, right?

All this flashes through my head in a few seconds. Only then does it dawn that the commercial is referring to e-messaging contacts. People.

So mundane.

Comments

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

*g* It's almost like you're a science fiction author. ;-)

I also wish the world was as cool as I sometimes mishear it.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

*g* It's almost like you're a science fiction author. ;-)

You can take the girl out of skiffy, but you can't take the skiffy out of the girl.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

YOU MUST WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THIS. Or, you know, using it as a component. Because that's AWESOME.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

When I first read about the tissue printers, I was gobsmacked.

I am guessing, though, that given that I am usually a year or two behind the tech curve, someone else has probably used this. Maybe several someones. But it would be good background tech.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Even if you're behind the tech curve and someone else has used it that is no reason you shouldn't!