... not LinkedIn but inked in ... join the dots ...

... not Facebook but face-to-face or: why not simply ... a book? ... or: look me in the face ... (friend or foe/ faux) ...

... & tweeting is for the birds ... what happened to a considered opinion? ... weigh your words ...

... 3 G ... 4G ? Do I want (need) my data to move faster? ... why the hurry? ...

... OneNote ... why have the meeting if you already want to predict the outcome? Thinking as grid lock ... Consensus as hidden agenda ...

... online questionnaires ... tick box evaluation ... extremely ... very ... not very ... quite ... not at all ... nuance as was the hotel minibar to your satisfaction? ...

... a sentence early on in Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment: "Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant" ...

... pixel resolution ... as I try to explain to my students, the shift from black and white television to colour in the early 70s was a miracle. Who can - really & truly - tell the difference in screen resolutions? (A 50 euro bottle of wine tastes amazing ... & one at a 100 euro? Is your palate so finely tuned?). At what point will we all say enough is enough? ...

... surf or serf ... ?