How has the emergence of technology in the last two decades affected our use of the English language?

I see the impact of technology on the English language and all languages for that matter in a couple of ways. First with the text messaging many now use the contractions and spelling short-cuts used in text messaging are getting onto both the written and spoken language. Second with emerging technologies you are seeing new words appearing to Reference the technologies and their uses. With some languages, such as Spanish, because they do not seem to lend themselves to these changes you see many English words being introduced or in some cases very long bersome uses of Traditional terms to try to describe a technology or process. Also we are seeing many "words of art" terms that in normal usage mean something quite different to their use in a specific profession or technology.