Reality Check: Kids Will Decide Our Digital Future

You can rant and rail and gnash your teeth all you want about the missing camera, the closed environment, the lack of Flash support, the limited memory, no USB, etc. But when you see a 4 year old interact with an iPad, you know this is the future of computing. It’s the very first baby step into a new threshold that leaves clunky peripherals behind and replaces them with fast, intuitive gestures. Every kid I’ve seen so far loves to watch videos, play board games, read books, draw, write, and just about anything else on this… pad. And they can do it independently without reading a 200 page manual.

So us adults can argue about specs while the children play with the gear.

Here are a few other examples of kids playing with the iPad: