I went "Thank God for Google" yesterday at my ex-ex-boss' boss (complicated interdepartmental shuffling makes for equally bizarre prefixes) for Chinese New Year lunch. Having graciously accepted the kind invitation, guests were treated to twee bak bee hoon served with fiery sambal and limes, and chicken curry with bread with dried longan soup for palate cleansing. Someone brought cheesecake (an odd but interesting mix) and there was obligatory yusheng too. That's when my divine praise came forth. The host asked if anyone knew what to say as she poured out the various ingredients and condiments that made up the dish. Most of us were stuck at "nian nian you yu" and "tian tian mi mi", a miserable recollection of yusheng tosses of yore. So I whipped out the good ol iPhone and Googled the necessary: "what to say with yusheng" and voilà! The answers were on screen before us. Awesome.
Find what to say at your next fish toss here >>
Where would we be today without quick and easy aggregation of information? Would Yahoo! and Microsoft have stepped up to the plate as readily and cleanly, and perhaps so prolifically? I dunno. And having the iPhone with connectivity is no less short of a necessity for all this data to come through so competently and coherently. Industry game changers and life changers too. Information here, now and forever.
This is the future I imagined.
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