Born Digital

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/born_digital.php

by danielrm26 • 15 years ago

60 7 15 years ago

tgrass• 15 years ago

Children are also born geocentric. And they think plastic cards from your wallet can get anything you want from a store.

seanalltogether• 15 years ago

The first anecdote is from Clay Shirky, if you ever get a chance to see one of his talks, I highly recommend it

marquis• 15 years ago

We had one of the first touch-tone phones in my house when I was a kid. We later moved out to the country where the phone system was on rotary: we picked up an antique handset and asked the operator for a number of 3 digits. I was perplexed and a little disappointed but also delighted - I remember feeling that I had come from the future, and having the recognition that technology 'existed'.

timjahn• 15 years ago

I think about this all time with my now 13 month old.

He'll grow up picking content from our Roku connected TV. He won't rush home to catch a show at 4pm. He'll just pull it up at his convenience on Hulu. Heck, he'll expect YouTube to be on a TV.

He'll grow up choosing what he wants to listen to from a vast library of music at his fingertips (be it an old school iPod, an Rdio like service, or something we've yet to see). Forget traditional car radio.

rboyce• 15 years ago

This highlights one of my complaints with the trend toward skeuomorphic designs: if I've never had a physical address book, then why is my iPad trying to imitate one?

nodata• 15 years ago

I found the iPad calendar app completely unusable for this reason. "Oh I'm meant to turn the pages, wait - is it up and down turn or left and right turn. Wait - why doesn't scroll work?"

alperakgun• 15 years ago

in a similar fashion, i am having more and more problems in handwriting, and it is funny to see my Samsung android tablet offer a note taking based on handwriting.

Born Digital

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