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Hilarious or Horrifying? Baby Thinks Magazine is a Broken iPad (Video)
Baby and Her Broken iPad
It is a new era for our young sons and daughters. They are born into a time where technology is everywhere. Where books are no longer just on paper, where mommy’s phone doubles as a mobile entertainment unit, and where a simple magazine is nothing but a very broken iPad.
A French father of a one-year-old video taped (found via Jezebel) his daughter’s frustration while handling a magazine. She could not zoom in, she could not scroll, she could not activate a link, and the images were oh so static. Something just was not right.
The dad wrote… “For my 1 year old daughter, a magazine is an iPad that does not work. It will remain so for her whole life. Steve Jobs has coded a part of her OS.”
It will be interesting to see what kind of affect the iPad and other technological advances have on our children. When they grow up will any of them ever pick up a paper magazine? Will everything need bells and whistles? How deeply “coded” with they be? The video is pretty cute and funny, but it’s also a bit scary.
Check out the video here, what do you think? Hilarious or horrifying?
Image: Via YouTube
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SusanP commented on Oct 14 11 at 3:45 pmI saw this yesterday and it really makes me think — exactly what you said, is it hilarious or horrifying? I am struggling every day as a parent trying to decide how much “tech” is right. It’s like I’m having my own internal battle with two thoughts:
1) The “old fashioned” me… I want my kids to be kids, coloring with crayons, playing outside, reading real books. I read real books to them every day and my older two were reading themselves before they started Kindergarten. I pride myself that it’s that quality time we have given them, etc. We have never bought any leap frog product or the like to “teach them” — we want them to learn the old fashioned way, and so far they have.
2) The “high tech” me… my husband and I are both engineers. I’ve always loved math, science, and high tech gadgets. When I really think back to my childhood, my parents were clearly the early adopters of high tech. (preface: we were not rich by any means. My parents were very frugal on most things, but when it came to high tech they were the first to jump in). We were one of the first families around who had: a color tv, VCR, a personal computer (Apple II+!), Atari, speak and spell, cell phones (a bag phone!).. gosh, I could go on. I have to wonder if being introduced to all this had an impact on my tech skills and future education – I have a B.S. in Physics, M.S. in Engineering and now an 11 year career in a successful high tech career. I want my kids to be successful as well…
So I struggle with this urge to keep our kids tech free and wondering if I may be holding them back from a future that will demand high tech skills? I have to be honest, when I first watched the video I was disgusted… my youngest is 17mo and I can’t fathom her doing that. But then when I thought about it some more I thought it was kind of cute and made me wonder if I’m holding my kids back. I do wonder what has made me resistant… when I was exposed to so much as a kid.
Newcombnt commented on Oct 14 11 at 4:20 pm#1 She doesn’t seem to know how to “work” either.
#2 Maybe kids shouldn’t playing with an iPad that young.
Anon, the original one commented on Oct 14 11 at 5:34 pmIt’s a shame Dad doesn’t know how to rotate the video : /
marlene commented on Oct 14 11 at 7:24 pmI do not buy the “Does It Work” gimmic. I think it is a kid touching a magazine, ya know to feel what paper feels like. The editing, (did ya catch the editing) makes it look like she is having problems not knowing if it is an ipad or a magazine. I think the parents are wanting to create a viral video or make a social commentary.
megan commented on Oct 17 11 at 12:53 pmDo they not ever read books to this kid?
Ana commented on Oct 17 11 at 1:00 pmI do think this baby is puzzled by how the magazine works. My toddler used to go up to the backlit billboards we have on the bus stops here in NYC and push them trying to make them “do” something. She did the same thing with TVs and computer screens. I think magazines and TV images and ipad apps all have the imprint of graphic designers and she recognized that as something that might also be reactive to her touch. She didn’t press the woven designs on furniture or carpet in the same way. This is all quite normal learning and has nothing to do with her “OS.” That said, this generation, and all generations to come, will of course have minds that view things differently than those before them. That’s not necessarily a scary thing.
n commented on Oct 18 11 at 2:41 ami gree anon. hahahha i think baby is more techie than dad :)
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