A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a humorous, somewhat contrived example of children and technology dependence.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2012 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites AndrewNCarr · 2012-12 · on “The best interface is no interface”
Reminds me of this: [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.
Cites samcday · 2019-03 · on “Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good”
Contrived example: [this 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 physi
Critical EGreg · 2015-12 · on “Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece”
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: [this video]