Perhaps this will brighten your spirits. Guess what the Word of the day was on dictionary.com today?
digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun: Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look at the digerati and their view of the world. --Michiko Kakutani, "Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest," New York Times, July 25, 2000
[T]his week, over 3,000 digerati will converge at a swank theater where chef Julia Child and pundit Arianna Huffington, among others, will judge 135 Web sites. --David Whitman, "The calm before the storms," U.S.News & World Report, May 15, 2000
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digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look at the digerati and their view of the world.
--Michiko Kakutani, "Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest," New York Times, July 25, 2000
[T]his week, over 3,000 digerati will converge at a swank theater where chef Julia Child and pundit Arianna Huffington, among others, will judge 135 Web sites.
--David Whitman, "The calm before the storms," U.S.News & World Report, May 15, 2000
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Digerati was formed by analogy with literati, "persons knowledgeable about literature."
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when are we gonna play pool, eh?
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