I just celebrated 20 years of living abroad in Luxembourg. I've done computer programming and now work on soft (administrative) process improvements using Lean tools and concepts.
The colloquial use this word has gained in the past 20 years is symbolic for our culture. Are we somehow pre-ordained to degenerate into creatures who will communicate using acronyms and one-word messages?
We'll be back to fighting bears for the right to live in the caves and drawing with ochre and ashes I suppose.