To A Baby, A Magazine Is An iPad That Does Not Work

A video of a techno-baby playing with an iPad and magazines has gone viral.

The YouTube video, from a software engineer in Paris, shows his 1-year-old daughter tapping away at a touchscreen iPad with relative ease. But when given magazines, the cutie baby seems all lost. The idea of turning pages and looking at pictures seems foreign to her. She tries to expand the pictures by “spreading” them with two fingers, much as one would on an iPad.

“Technology codes our minds,” the father writes. “Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium is message. Humble tribute to Steve Jobs, by the most important person: a baby.”

At end the clip simply says: ‘For my one-year-old daughter a magazine is an iPad that does not work.

‘It will remain so her whole life. Steve Jobs has coded part of her OS.’

The littlebaby has no problem operating her mother's iPad.

The baby is lost when she tried to use magazines in the same way.

From watching this clip, it seems that tech-savvy infants and toddlers do not know how to flip a page in a magazine (the paper type).

What a commentary on our modern lifestyle!