Utter Sarcasm

Once again I find proof that regular people (um, me) are smarter than professionals.

Wait wait wait. Not “smart enough” like “hey, I’m gonna go ahead and do all this work that you can’t seem to finish” but more like “hey, you’re an idiot sometimes, and now everyone knows”.

So here’s my beef:

Wired reported that “cyberspace” just isn’t cool enough to describe our “new new reality”. Okay. Who better to think up a better descriptor than the aptly named Institute for the Future. Obviously they’re on fire when it comes to thinking up sweet-ass names for stuff. (“Institute of the Future”, seriously?)

Don’t bother reading the half page of dribble, the best, best suggestions of a “roundtable of virtual leaders” (holy god…) to give the internet a more tangible name read like this:

• Augmented Reality
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Infosphere
• The World

Thanks guys, you really left the surreal effervescence of ambiguity behind and latched on to something cogent and comprehensible (because that’s why “cyberspace” is outdated, right? because we “get it”?). Never mind, just go tinker with your Interblogs and leave the nameology to us.

Tags: language, People == Idiots, Wired, words

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