Baby Thinks Magazine is Just Broken iPad

[Perknose]

Welcome to today, future old-timers! 😉

 

[dwell]

That's awesome. Though I do admit I tired to tap on something on my notebook's monitor more than once.

 

[SagaLore]

Its cute to watch... until you think of the ramifications. Our kids are growing up with artificial interaction with the world. I wonder what the long term effects will be on cause/effect and spatial reasoning.

 

[lxskllr]

That's hilarious. I wonder how the proliferation of gadgets will affect kids' imagination, and creativity over the long term. Having everything handed to you on a silver platter /can/ kill the brain. I predict a dual class of thinkers in the future. The elite that can see the underlying potential of technology, and can manipulate it to do what they want, and the consumer who can't do anything unless it's handed to them. It's already happening, but I think the divide between the two will get much wider.

 

[Veliko]

Its cute to watch... until you think of the ramifications. Our kids are growing up with artificial interaction with the world. I wonder what the long term effects will be on cause/effect and spatial reasoning.

To be honest an actual magazine is just artificial as an iPad screen is.

 

[SagaLore]

To be honest an actual magazine is just artificial as an iPad screen is.

How so? Its manufactured, yes, but every page is tangible and all the content is static. Its an instrument of language. You move it, you rip it, you fold it. When I say that electronic devices are artificial, I'm talking about the interaction with it. Sure the device itself is tangible but the output is synthetic.

What it comes down to is - when the child plays with an object, is the object helping them learn about the world around them, or is the object removing them from the world?

 

[ponyo]

I see my 2 and 3 yr old little nephew and cousins using their iPad and I marvel at the genius of the device and the interface. It's like second nature to them.

 

[Vic Vega]

Meh. The kid doesn't have a concept of an tablet PC or a magazine. She's a year old. What she notices is that some of the flat, colorful items mother gives her move and others don't. Oh the hugemanatee. Cute kid though. 🙂

 

[Veliko]

How so? Its manufactured, yes, but every page is tangible and all the content is static. Its an instrument of language. You move it, you rip it, you fold it. When I say that electronic devices are artificial, I'm talking about the interaction with it. Sure the device itself is tangible but the output is synthetic.

What it comes down to is - when the child plays with an object, is the object helping them learn about the world around them, or is the object removing them from the world?

Well in the case of a magazine vs and iPad, the child still has to pick up and hold the iPad itself in order to read/view what is on it. The words themselves are no less artificial on a screen than they are on a bit of paper.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Its cute to watch... until you think of the ramifications. Our kids are growing up with artificial interaction with the world. I wonder what the long term effects will be on cause/effect and spatial reasoning.

It's already happened, the 'youts' of today truly believe online interaction is interchangeable with what us geezers call 'real life.'

 

[ViviTheMage]

Awesome, looks like she figures it out at the end.

 

[brblx]

I see my 2 and 3 yr old little nephew and cousins using their iPad and I marvel at the genius of the device and the interface.

i'm still laughing at this.

dumbing something down to toddler levels of understanding != genius

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I see my 2 and 3 yr old little nephew and cousins using their iPad and I marvel at the genius of the device and the interface. It's like second nature to them.

i'm still laughing at this.

dumbing something down to toddler levels of understanding != genius

Your both right and wrong. You could sit a baby down in front of any tech or any thing and, he will explore it to get a response. One of the things I hated most about computer science classes were the youts who thought everything was "obvious" or, "self explanatory" when it was simply a matter of them being familiar with the interface when I wasn't.

 

[her209]

She was just trying to squeeze the woman's boobies in the picture.

 

[Newbian]

And one wonders how apps somehow vanish from the ipad. 😛

 

[Anubis]

thats pretty sad

 

[jteef]

I got my 2 yo niece an ipad for xmas last year. after around 3 months of use, she walked up to my parents tv and tried to swipe to a new screen and got all confused when it didn't work. lols.

 

[Broheim]

idiocracy just came a little closer.

 

[Newbian]

I got my 2 yo niece an ipad for xmas last year. after around 3 months of use, she walked up to my parents tv and tried to swipe to a new screen and got all confused when it didn't work. lols.

It's all fun and games until the kid gets frustrated and breaks the tv. 😛

 

[The Boston Dangler]

what a stupid, spoiled baby.

Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively.

i was wrong. it's stupid, spoiled parents.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol that is funny.

And they are brave to give an ipad to a baby lol. Dirty, wet, soggy fingers all over the screen. 😛

 

[Zenmervolt]

Its cute to watch... until you think of the ramifications. Our kids are growing up with artificial interaction with the world. I wonder what the long term effects will be on cause/effect and spatial reasoning.

Frankly, I don't see anything abnormal or unusual in the child's interactions. If you give anything to a baby they're going to poke at it and treat it exactly as the baby in the video treated the magazines, regardless of whether the baby has ever experienced a tablet. That's just what babies do. They poke things, they try to grab flat surfaces, they make swiping motions across things. I really don't think that it has anything to do with the iPad.

ZV

 

[RiDE]

My friend's two year old can scroll through their iphone/ipad and play the saved yo gabba gabba videos. Great way to quiet them down on a 13 hour flight.

 

[JimmiG]

Its cute to watch... until you think of the ramifications. Our kids are growing up with artificial interaction with the world. I wonder what the long term effects will be on cause/effect and spatial reasoning.

We as a species are designed to quickly adapt to new conditions and situations. A lot of the stuff that was around when you were a kid would have seemed very unnatural to someone that was 30 years old at the time.

I think that is a good thing generally. The only problem is that after the zombie apocalypse, it will take another generation before we re-adapt to regular paper magazines. Not to mention having to hunt, make campfires with flint and tinder etc.

 

[IGemini]

i was wrong. it's stupid, spoiled parents.

This. Here's the entire quote from the vid description:

Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium is message. Humble tribute to Steve Jobs, by the most important person : a baby.

The bolded statement is just mind-numbingly stupid, as both a truth or a bad joke. Apple designed the interface so that anyone with the most basic understanding of how to interact with the environment could figure out how to use it. A 1-year old is just starting that process and will learn it for a couple years. If the kid can't figure out how a book works by the end of that phase, there's a serious issue. Physical books may be starting obsolescence but it takes no greater understanding to use one than an iPad.

It's humorous, sure. Novelty is the thing infants love. But this is all like saying a kid that can write a few words means they're an author and can write a good book.

Lots of puns in this post.