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Sunday, April 03, 2011
Touch Screen Natives
It occurred to me that the Digital Natives generation is now replaced by the "Touch Screen" Generation. I witnessed a two year old using a touch screen - making the screen graphics bigger, then smaller. This generation will grow up not having to right click and find the "zoom" to increase or decrease percentage size. The Touch Screen Generation will not have a need for cameras - photos taken by their hand held devices will get better and better quality. Email may even become a thing of the past as short 140 character posts in Twitter will replace long text. Library books? Who knows - for awhile parents will read traditional books to their kids, but in the long term, the touch screen on the e-reader will take over.
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I like your theories about the "touch screen" generation. I think that some day, with the invention of Kinect for the xbox360 and your body being the controller, there might be a day when you won't have to touch any thing. All you will have to do is wave your hand, blink your eye or spread your fingers apart to control a device.
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