ALGEBRAIC EIGHT-BALL: AT WHAT AGE WILL TECHNOLOGY OVERTAKE YOUR ABILITY TO USE IT?

• A = Your current age.

• S_N = On how many of the following services are you a registered user? Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Twitter, Blogger, Badoo, Bebo, Flickr, LinkedIn.

• C_T = How many cell phones do you own?

• D = In how many of the following dinosaur activities do you participate on a daily basis: read the newspaper, subscribe to a newspaper, use a pen/pencil, watch TV, listen to music that has ever been placed on any nondigital recordable media, recreate off-line.

• W = In how many programming languages could you design a widget of any sort?

• P = How many of the following people have you heard of? Linus Torvalds, Ray Ozzie, Kevin Mitnick, Jean Grey, Samwise Gamgee, Violet Blue.

A_TECH is the age at which your human operating system will become outdated. Notice that you may not have much time.