A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work

[Letizia]

Has anyone seen this video that is going through the Web? It shows a one year old baby that simply can't understand how a paper magazine works, and tries to use it like an iPad, which is really familiar to her. I find amazing how easy is for babies to interact with these devices... What do you think about?

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Fascinating video. It shows how fused kids are with technology, even at that young age. But from an environmental point-of-view I'm all for technology. You don't need to chop down a tree to make an iPad.

[Letizia]

I think it's quite normal... the paper book itself it's a technology, after all. The difference is that it hasn't changed for years, that we have been familiar to it for generations: new devices and digital technologies for contents are turning everything upside down in a so fast way that we are not used to. Maybe that's why it seems so strange :)

[Letizia]

On Wired there's a quite critic opinion on the video, I think it could be interesting too, take a look: Why the A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work Video Is Ridiculous

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Letizia wrote: "On Wired there's a quite critic opinion on the video, I think it could be interesting too, take a look: Why the A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work Video Is Ridiculous"

The final paragraph of that article says it all. Its a case of watching and learning because nobody really knows as yet what kind of affect the newest technologies will have on human beings.

[David]

"The final paragraph of that article says it all. Its a case of watching and learning because nobody really knows as yet what kind of affect the newest technologies will have on human beings."

I agree with Joe's sentiments. I guess this discussion is somewhat old, but I just found it now ;) I substitute teach k-12 and I worry whether all these gadgets are going to ruin a generation of minds.

For years people have been pointing to all the fools who said this technology or that was going to be a problem but what's never taken into account is how Moore's Law will affect people's cognitive abilities - people always assume changes in technology are linear so that the past will mirror the future - but this isn't true.