09-14-2011, 05:12 PM
My daughter and I were at the Apple store, playing with Photo Booth on a MBA.
She kept pushing the red button on the screen to take the picture. I said, no, you have to use this thing down here to move that arrow on the screen. She said oh, that's hard.
She's 4. It occurred to me that her level of computer literacy may evolve in a time where touch is the primary input. For me it was text. For the young'uns around here, they're used to GUI based mouse input. The little ones these days are on the leading edge of touch input.
She kept pushing the red button on the screen to take the picture. I said, no, you have to use this thing down here to move that arrow on the screen. She said oh, that's hard.
She's 4. It occurred to me that her level of computer literacy may evolve in a time where touch is the primary input. For me it was text. For the young'uns around here, they're used to GUI based mouse input. The little ones these days are on the leading edge of touch input.