The future is now: If you’re not up-to-speed on tech terms, you’re likely to be left behind — not just technologically, but socially, politically, and even economically. (via The ReidOut Blog)
All of these are tech-related terms you may have thought were confined to futuristic novels and films like"Tron" or"Ready Player One." But we’ve reached a point where these terms are immensely and increasingly relevant to our lives, not far off figments of our imagination.
I’m sympathetic to people who hear modern-day sentences full of tech jargon and think they sound like utter nonsense. But the future is now, and unless you’re up-to-speed on the tech terms that dominate today’s discourse, you’re likely to be left behind — not just technologically, but socially, politically, and even economically.
Today, major tech platforms, like social media sites, pump terabytes of news and other content to users
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