Born Digital

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.

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?

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'.