Word: monitorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...surrounds this, a way of playing it out in a kind of harmless way." For some, anyway. Survivor rates best with the young and the well-off--those who grew up with computers as helpers and playmates, those who use "nannycams" to watch the hired help from the office monitor. Where you stand on VTV, it seems, largely depends on where you stand on technology...
...took me a good three months to figure out, but college can be a lot of fun if you're not the party monitor. Social life can be extremely confusing for first-years, especially for ones that never really drank in high school...
...device plugged into an electrical outlet and came with suction cups. This frightened me even more than the Zappa hair until the people from SafeSexPlus explained that I was supposed to stick the suction cups on my computer monitor once the "cyberdildonics box" popped up. This box could be made darker or lighter by Alexa's controlling the box on her screen and would make my latex gizmo vibrate at higher or lower frequencies depending on how much light she decided to give me. I don't know what sexual experience was supposed be replicated by a vibrating disembodied female...
Alexa, ever the playful one, told me she'd take off her top if I could make her light box change colors, so I got one of the tech guys at work to help me. Soon I could see her yawning on my monitor. This, I thought, was getting to be more like the sexual experiences I was accustomed...
...feverish embrace of extreme individuality, free-market pursuit and constant self-improvement completely drowns out any inclination for people to think about others who are less fortunate. There is no real community, no downtime, no nurturing of the soul in Peters' business model--just workers hunched over a monitor, constantly "improving" themselves for the next level of business. Will embracing technology automatically make you a queen bee--or will you still be a drone? WILLIAM T. LAYHER Somerville, Mass...