Amazing video: what a small child does with the iPad: it's a playing tool!

There is so much to be learned from this video - be sure to watch it. Clearly, the iPad (and hopefully, many other cool tablets that will follow in its wake now) is an altogether different way of 'computing'. GUI becomes NUI (natural user interface), at last. Finger-sweeping on a touch screen, and literally playing with the screen and the interface and the apps - definitely not a work tool as much as a reading + watching + consumption ++ playing tool. And yes, agreed, the iPad is a walled garden, it is Control in a very shameless form - and it still rocks. Confusing, maybe, but not enough to disregard or destroy or even. ...blend it.

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Comments

[Giorgos]

1.

Yes, it is nice to see technology simple enough for children to use (and enjoy!).

But no child should have to grow up in a world where computing is controlled by a few huge corporations, more intent on imposing artificial restrictions and protecting their DRM systems than on giving users freedom and access to the true power of their devices.

It's apparently a well-built machine with a beautiful and easy-to-use GUI. But that's about it. It's not a "revolution". In terms of digital freedom it's a major leap backwards.

A lack of digital freedom is something abstract. It doesn't make the device any less shiny to the average consumer. But it matters.