*TEKST

- The text starts with a mother joining social network and the daughter thought
that expressing your opinion online sounded really stupid, but the idea turned
out to have legs
- Her mother is an emerging technology consultant
- In 90s her mother worked with companies who wanted to develop software
and hardware for video conferencing
- The hardware were bulky and expensive. Tech start-ups launched with
fanfare and sank within months
- When she went to college she took a video phone with her. It had a handset,
a cord and a keypad
- Few years later her mother was no longer interested in skype with video, her
interest was in premature things (who are unready to take place in the world.)
E.g. OGMENTED reality glasses and headsets. She invented that even before
Google Glass was even on horizon (hora jzon)
- The girl can tell what users are going to want because she has seen many
things fail and many unlikely things succeed.

*VOCABULARY
- Emerging technologies – new technologies that are currently developing and
who will alert business
- Early adopter – a person who starts using a product as soon as it becomes
available
- Tech start-ups – starting a new business or project
- Handset – the part of a telephone that you hold close to your mouth and ear
to speak into and listen
- Cord – piece of wire used for carrying electricity (to a piece of equipment)
- Keypad – set of buttons with letters and numbers
- Headsets – headphones usually with a microphone
- Earbuds – small headphones that are worn inside the ear

Turned out to have legs – something that turned out to be successful

Murmurs reassurance – speak quietly to calm someone down
Launched with fanfare – something started with a lot of noise to grab people’s
attention
Sank – fail (business)
Up to speed – to have latest information that you need about something
Dedicated hardware – something made for particular purpose
Groan-inducing – negative feelings about something (writer –> new phone)
(all the) hallmarks –
typical characteristic of a
person/thing

*REPORTED SPEECH
MUST = HAD TO
HAVE TO
This  that
These –> those
Whether = if