A few years after radio was invented, 1,000 new words had been added to the English language. Every technology since then has resulted in new terms that allow us all to talk about it.
Two of the newest ones to emerge in the digital age are the "eyeborg" and "life-casting."
A Canadian filmmaker who lost one eye as a youngster is having a miniature video camera, power source and controller inserted into his eye socket so he can make a documentary about surveillance in modern society.
The problem, he reports, is that people see his single eyeborg camera as a greater threat to their privacy than the 12,000 surveillance cameras in the Toronto area where he lives. And he's promised not to record or broadcasting from inside locker rooms or bathrooms, because he doesn’t want to do "life-casting."
You can probably figure out what that means -- travelling through life with a camera 24/7 and broadcasting events in real time as they occur. But I doubt that most of us have lives that are so exciting and unusual that others would want to give up their lives to live with us vicariously.
Reality television, webcams, and Twitter don’t really change that for us. Does this take technology too far?