A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v

UserExperiencesWorks · 5.1M views · 2011-10-06 · 1:26

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Overview

A one-minute video of a baby treating a print magazine like a broken iPad, presented as a tribute to Steve Jobs. It makes a point about how touch screens shape the expectations of digital natives.

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Cited as a humorous, somewhat contrived example of children and technology dependence.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2012–2019

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UX & UI design Consumer devices & gadgets Psychology & human behavior

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samcday · 2019-03 · Reference
Contrived example: [VIDEO] I'm right with you. I grew up on the cusp of the internet's explosive growth. I got online every chance I could get, but until I was in my mid-teens our internet was dial-up and I wasn't allowed to monopolize the phone line. I still spent a lot of time on computers, but without the internet it was a very different dynamic, IMHO. You had to engage the critical-thinking bits of your brain a lot more, since answering questions didn't involve inputting those questions into Google and having StackOverflow/Wikipedia/random blog posts give you the answer sans any of the process/context required to arrive at that answer. I also spent more time interacting with things physically too. Lego (parents bought me a Mindstorm kit one christmas), physical books, even just tearing apart old computers and putting them back together.
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EGreg · 2015-12 · Criticism
I honestly think I'll raise my kids watching 80s and 90s cartoons and not show them iPads til they're 6 or so. I don't want them to wind up like this kid: [VIDEO]
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AndrewNCarr · 2012-12 · Reference
Reminds me of this: [VIDEO] (A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work) Not that I disagree, it is just fun to think about possible unintended consequences of dependency on AI for every day tasks. I am sure there are some short stories that deal with people in an advanced civilization losing their automation, but I can't seem to track any down on Google at the moment.
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