1. Your stationery is more cluttered than Warren Beatty's address
book. The letterhead lists a fax number, e-mail addresses for two
on-line services, and your Internet address, which spreads across
the breadth of the letterhead and continues to the back. In
essence, you have conceded that the first page of any letter you
write *is* letterhead.

2. You have never sat through an entire movie without having at
least one device on your body beep or buzz.

3. You need to fill out a form that must be typewritten, but you
can't because there isn't one typewriter in your house -- only
computers with laser printers.

4. You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but you
forget to send your father a birthday card.

5. You disdain people who use low baud rates.

6. When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson
talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and
spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions,
while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.

7. You use the phrase "digital compression" in a conversation
without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say it.

8. You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say
the phrase "digital compression." Everyone understands what you
mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't
have to explain it.

9. You know Bill Gates' e-mail address, but you have to look up your
own social security number.
10. You stop saying "phone number" and replace it with "voice
number," since we all know the majority of phone lines in any
house are plugged into contraptions that talk to other
contraptions.