Today's online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory, spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms -- new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, or broadband. These are now old-hat neologisms even your mother would recognize. But neologisms can also be existing words that acquire new meaning, like the term spam. Or the word friend -- that's now a verb! People "friend" each other on social networking sites like Facebook all the time!
So what better place to look for neologisms than at a conference devoted to the "Future of the Internet" at Harvard.
ThoughtCast's Jenny Attiyeh was there...
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Today's online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory, spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms -- new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, or broadband. These are now old-hat neologisms even your mother would recognize. But neologisms can also be existing words that acquire new meaning, like the term spam. Or the word friend -- that's now a verb! People "friend" each other on social networking sites like Facebook all the time! So what better place to look for neologisms than at a conference devoted to the "Future of the Internet" at Harvard. ThoughtCast's Jenny Attiyeh was there...
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Today's online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory, spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms -- new words, or phrases.
Take the word blog, for example, or broadband. These are now old-hat neologisms even your mother would recognize. But neologisms can also be existing words that acquire new meaning, like the term spam.
Or the word friend -- that's now a verb! People "friend" each other on social networking sites like Facebook all the time!
So what better place to look for neologisms than at a conference devoted to the "Future of the Internet" at Harvard.
ThoughtCast's Jenny Attiyeh was there...
(Note: Attiyeh is pronounced Uh-TEE-uh. Thanks!)
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