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//Edit: Hit the wrong letter... Thanks, mmonnin... :banghead:
//Edit: Hit the wrong letter... Thanks, mmonnin... :banghead:
Cool stuff Shorty, even when you're not around, you're around.:)
Doh! I always hit teh "D" when I mean to hit the "S."
/me likeS being a geek...
The problem with phone service in the US is that you can't get special services in 85% of the country and no one company can even give you basic phone service in every major city. One case where competition didn't bread a better situation yet.
lol
But to think that what used to be just a phone:
* now takes as good pictures as the average pocket camera
* is better than a lot of video cameras
* is smarter than my old PDA ever thought of being
* plays my favorite music as good as any mp3 player
* and also gives me news, weather, stocks, radio, movies, TV and a gaggle of things I never thought of 9yrs ago when this post started!
That would not be a pretty sight.
It's only 30-something versions of ourselves who see the past 20+ years of innovation and think it's revolutionary. Kids think it's normal. We're meta-thinking about the situation from today's viewpoint, rather than really seeing it how our ten year old selves would see it.
I was thinking about this the other day as I watched my 15-month old son pick up my Android phone, play with the touch screen as if he were dialing, then put it to his ear and say, "Hi!" to it.
As I witnessed this, at first I thought, "Wow, when I was a kid phones were gigantic chunks of plastic with physical dials and cords. By my definition, the Android's not even really a phone - how does he know to use it like that?" Then I realized the archetype for a device is relative, and kids will mimic the adult use of pretty much any item humans have conceived.
For adults, though, archetypes stick around longer than is relatively useful. For example, when we think of "phone" symbolically, it is often pictured as a sideways handset of the telephones we grew up with. It's increasingly not relevant when our actual telephone is basically a miniature tablet convergence device with a touchscreen face. Similarly, the "Save" icon of almost every piece of software out there is a stylized floppy disk. How long will that make sense to kids, many of whom have never used a PC with a floppy drive? Because these concepts hold such inertia in our adult brains, we think of our younger selves as rigidly encased in the technology of the era in which we grew up, but in reality our young selves would take to today's tech just as readily as today's kids.
I guess that's just a long way of saying, kids just intuitively use technology as intended without gawking, and without shitting themselves.