{"id":630,"date":"2011-10-15T14:42:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:29:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:29:15","slug":"steve-jobs-reality-distortion-field-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs&#8217; Reality Distortion Field Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a story going around about how a 1-year old just can&#8217;t figure out a magazine, despite being able to work out how to use an iPad: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/10\/13\/baby-magazine-ipad\/\">1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It&#8217;s An iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXV-yaFmQNk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s amazing about this story is people gushing about how this further shows Steve Jobs&#8217; genius or how he has &#8220;coded a part of [this child]&#8217;s OS&#8221; (comments on mashable, above). Wow, how amazing is the iPad that it&#8217;s easier to understand for a baby than a physical magazine?<\/p>\n<p>This is ridiculous. Let&#8217;s stop and think for a minute. Children do not know very much about the physical world. If you give them an iPad and they play with it, they &#8220;learn&#8221; that touching the screen makes things move. Give them a magazine, of course, they&#8217;re going to think they can move the pictures around. They are experimenting and trying to learn how things work. <\/p>\n<p>Surely, if you gave this baby a magazine first and one day gave them an iPad, it would seem odd to them that they  can do things on an iPad they can&#8217;t do on a magazine. This has nothing to do with the intuitiveness of an iPad versus a magazine, or how magazines are somehow inferior, or how Jobs was a genius.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, yes, Steve Jobs was an amazing influence on computing and Apple makes great things, but enough with the gushing, as if you&#8217;ve just discovered you&#8217;re related to him and you need to share his genius with the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a story going around about how a 1-year old just can&#8217;t figure out a magazine, despite being able to work out how to use an iPad: 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It&#8217;s An iPad. What&#8217;s amazing about this story is people gushing about how this further shows Steve Jobs&#8217; genius or how he has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Jobs&#8217; Reality Distortion Field Lives On<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140],"tags":[38,64,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}