Thumb Tribe: Oyayubizoku

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Sat Apr 21 10:44:16 UTC 2001


Cool new word, meaning people who use digital devices: PDAs, cell phones, GPS
receivers, and, I guess, calculators.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/magazine/22CONNECTIVITY.html

"I have joined what the Japanese are calling the oyayubizoku (the thumb tribe),
named for the organ we so compulsively poke at our tiny keypads."


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Grant Barrett
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