BREAKING NEWS: 'As I Become Digital' Update

After using my new smart phone for almost two months, I just discovered something amazing. No, not the free bird call apps; something even grander, even sweeter to the ears: My phone can talk! My smart phone is not dumb, and I am dumbfounded (and that smarts).

If this is a Helen Keller moment, I'm not sure whether I am Patty Duke or Anne Bancroft, although personally I'd rather be Anne Bancroft.

Or maybe it was more like an Alexander Graham Bell moment -- 'Mr. Watson -- Come here -- I want to see you' -- in which case I would either be Watson or Alexander The Great-great-great-grandfather of smartphones. I dunno, though for some reason I still wanna be Anne Bancroft .....

Anyway, I have christened my phone Iris (Siri backwards). I feel like a proud parent. Iris's first words were: 'The San Antonio Spurs play the Miami Heat at 8 p.m. tonight.' I am impressed that her first utterance was a grammatically correct declarative sentence. Perhaps it's unfair to compare Iris to No. 1 Son, whose first word I believe was 'Noooooooooo!'

Anyway, like any parent, I am already concerned that my phone might not be as developmentally advanced as yours. Already I am noticing that Iris' vocabulary and cognitive skills are not quite on par with Siri's.

I don't want to play favorites, I just want Iris to reach her full potential while nailing every random question I ask the first time I ask it.

In fact, I'm looking forward to some one-on-one vocabulary and listening comprehension sessions with Iris, which will give me plenty of opportunities to yell, 'Quiet on the set!' which is serious fun. Also reading to her, coaxing some more words out of her, discouraging backtalk etc. Gotta get'em while their young. While Siri is asleep.


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