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Mon, 21 Oct 02 00:54:13 -2300
Hiya Folks...
Now it's time to learn about some of the new fears and phobias that
could only happen in the tech age...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------
10 Tech-age fears and phobias courtesy of the Sunday Times:
1 Fenestraphobia: fear of Microsoft
2 Bratophobia: fear of exposing one's ignorance to a child
3 Betamaxitis: chronic fear of buying something that will be instantly
outdated
4 Meldrew syndrome: fear of being left behind by the digital revolution
5 Homotonophobia: fear of sharing a mobile ringtone with anyone else
6 Dotcoma: unconscious state resulting from checking prices of tech
stocks you bought at the top of the market
7 Scully complex: believing the truth is out there
8 NTs: like DTs, except the shakes cover the whole network
9 Mutatophobia: fear of food engineered to resist the superbugs capable
of infecting earlier generations of food engineered to resist normal
bugs
10 Laranoia: fear that big-breasted cyberbabes are taking over the world
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