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Cited on HN 3 times, 2012–2019, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Cited as a humorous, somewhat contrived example of children and technology dependence.

A one-minute video of a baby treating a print magazine like a broken iPad, presented as a tribute to Steve Jobs. It makes a point about how touch screens shape the expectations of digital natives.

2 citations · 1 critical · Other · partly dated

3 Hacker News comments

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@AndrewNCarr Dec 2012 Cites it
on HN thread The best interface is no interface
Reminds me of this: [this video] (A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work) Not that I disagree, it is just fun to think about possible unintended consequences of dependency on AI for every day tasks. I am sure there are some short stories that deal with people in an advanced civilization losing their automation, but I can't seem to track any down on Google at the moment.
Humorous take on technology dependence.
@samcday Mar 2019 Cites it
on HN thread Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
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Contrived example: [this video] I'm right with you. I grew up on the cusp of the internet's explosive growth. I got online every chance I could get, but until I was in my mid-teens our internet was dial-up and I wasn't allowed to monopolize the phone line. I still spent a lot of time on computers, but without the internet it was a very different dynamic, IMHO. You had to engage the critical-thinking bits of your brain a lot more, since answering questions didn't involve inputting those questions into Google and having StackOverflow/Wikipedia/random blog posts give you the answer sans any of the process/context required to arrive at that answer. I also spent more time interacting with things physically too. Lego (parents bought me a Mindstorm kit one christmas), physical books, even just tearing apart old computers and putting them back together.
Contrived example of a child and an iPad.

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