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Born Digital
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/born_digital.php
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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?
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?"
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.
Children are also born geocentric. And they think plastic cards from your wallet can get anything you want from a store.
The first anecdote is from Clay Shirky, if you ever get a chance to see one of his talks, I highly recommend it
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'.
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.