I’ve known for years that we as human beings were jogging down a whole new path that would not only change our lives, but probably change our brains as well.
That’s a freaky thought! But then again, if we didn’t adapt and change with the world, we’d still be running around naked eating seeds and killing animals with rocks.
And quite frankly, I’d be quite a sight today, as it’s chilly in St. Louis. NO! Don’t picture it. You might not be able to handle the awful imagery.
So what’s my point, if I do have one? (Which, let’s be honest, is not always the case.)
Okay. It’s this video I just watched on Mashable, which has a fabulous article to go with it. But the truth is, you barely need the article. The video simply says it all.
I can’t remember the last time something became so instantly crystal clear to me. I’d like to say I discovered this gem. But over 2 million people beat me to it. So, you know, that’s me. Really quick on the draw.
Yeah. I’m not. But this kid is. Have you seen it in your kids or grandkids? I’d love to know what you think.
Now here’s the thing Paula, I became a fan of your writing some time back – August I believe. I like to think that I am a fairly intelligent human – a bit of politics here, a bit of financials there, a bit of creativity…and yet the workings of your blog seem to have completely eluded me.
Having wanted to keep up with Tipsy and all your general cleverly crafted observations I must have visited countless times saying to myself, ‘Oh I hope Paula’s alright she hasn’t written anything new for a while.’ This is because your blog header and home link (which I am programed by default to click) clicks to what I now know is a sort of second ‘about’ page? – and not the most recent post page. Oh dear. I have missed about 8 posts at least since I first found you. Oh well, it’s okay to have a dumb moment or two as long as it doesn’t define you!
I had seen this video. It is indeed a great insight into how our brains work isn’t it? And if proof were needed of the impact of Steve Jobs and his like…
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Eeeek! I have just read my post back…that’s ME having a dumb moment not you…although I think it reads as me calling YOU dumb! Oh dear! Time for an early lie down and comforting some hot tea I think.
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Oh, nonsense and pooh to that, my friend! You know I don’t give a hoot for that kind of thing. Even if you had meant it that way, I’d be fine with it. Now that I’m past mid-life, I’m ultra-mellow about things that simply don’t matter at all.
So, in summary: you’re cool, I’m cool, and we all scream for ice cream! ;D
And yes. The baby video truly shows how Steve Jobs has changed life forever. (Or at least until the electricity goes down forever, taking the internet with it.) <—My greatest fear, given the degree to which I'm hooked on this life.
Paula Lee Bright brilliantly posted Life Posts a Tribute in Pictures to Steve Jobs
Pea, you have it ALL right! The workings of my blog are a mystery—to me too!
I have long realized that I need to 1) organize the damn thing and 2) start getting my email posts out to my subscribers. It’s a mess, but I do have a fairly acceptable excuse.
My reading teaching online is booming. Thank heavens. It took a while, but now it’s going so, so, so very well! And since I spend at least 2 hours planning for a lesson of 1 hour, most of my time goes to that. Meaning that this ole blog gets ignored BIG time.
Since you’ve been so kind as to say you like the silly posts here, I admit that I miss it, and need to schedule in time to write for this blog. It’s my non-child-oriented getaway, and I think I need to make time for it.
Bless your heart for caring, my dear! You’re a true sweetheart. And hey, I must admit it’s kinda nice to be missed. Thanks, Pea!
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Pea, it would appear that I’m STILL not together enough to find ten minutes to make this damn place maneuverable. Sheesh, geez and poop. BUT, I’m still loving the teaching. It’s great to see my little business take off and do well. It’s almost time to expand! But I miss my “Almost 60″ buds. I shall return!
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You know, Paula, you really bring up a good point in the beginning of your piece! I watched one of those end-of-the-world videos recently and the narrator proposed that we may have to go back to the living-of-the-land way we used to live if we want to survive in the future because we’ve been totally destroying the earth. I often wonder what it would be like if we needed to go back to that one day. =) We may all live more peacefully. =P
In any case, thanks so much for sharing that video! =) It sure did make me smile! =)
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Samantha, I agree with you SO totally. I am in dreadful fear for our planet. And one of the parties in our Congress here in the U.S. wants to do away with ALL regulations on business—especially the ones that protect the environment. It’s inconceivable to me!
We need to take the physical properties of this world intensely seriously right now or we face a very sad future indeed.
Glad you enjoyed the video, and I surely do appreciate your frequent visits. You’re a peach, kid!
Paula Lee Bright brilliantly posted Steve Jobs Didn’t Give Me a Computer, He Gave Me Back My Life
Haha, “Steve Jobs has coded part of her OS!” OMG! This is just too funny!
Kids are truly a new generation of human beings with a different understanding of technical solutions and gadgets. I really wonder when printed media disappears for good.
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Hi, Anna! Yep, when I read that final line, I too was hooting with laughter, but in a nervous way, if you know what I mean. I know change happens, I know it is part of nature, but it’s still mighty scary!
Paula Lee Bright brilliantly posted Steve Jobs Didn’t Give Me a Computer, He Gave Me Back My Life
Enter the contrarian…
1. I detest videos on the web. They can entertain, but they cannot be relied upon for news and information. For many reasons. (a) They are not sourced. (b) They provide oral information at a fraction of the speed at which I read and write- and my time is husbanded. Enough.
2. The plethora of “data” on the web does not connote information. There needs to be several other additions. (a) The requirement that information on the web be retained in it’s originality, demonstrating what changes have been made over time. To keep the author responsible for chicanery, lies, or errors. Because all too often fake news is published, become viral, and then the original removed to preclude the knowledge of from whence and with what motives underlied the process. (b) Editing and coalescing all similar information for comparison. Too many people only read that which satisfies their ego, without reading (the facts, the other side) to know the complete issue.
I could go on… But, the plethora of knowledge impels me to seek new data…
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Roy, so are so right about videos—to a degree. Personally, I much prefer reading to videos because they’re too time-consuming for me too, as you said. We can read the same info so much faster. Still, I did enjoy this one! I enjoyed seeing the baby’s reaction when nothing happened.
You’re right of course about the information dispersed in videos. But I think that applies to anything on the web. It’s absolutely necessary to to check the sources.
I love seeing The Contrarian in my comments!
I saw this video a few weeks ago. It was amazing but yet not too surprising too me how this little baby knew so much about our current day gadgets. Hmm, makes you wonder if technology is based on our simplistic, young minds. Also Paula you reminded me …. It is so funny how our son recently went away to college and my husband and I are still calling him asking him how we use our TV to play movies, etc.!
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Hi, Lynn. You’re right. I wasn’t so much surprised as I was impressed with the clarity of its point. It really crystallized it for me, that like it or not, we ARE changing.
So funny about your son. I still need the Pseudo-Husband come into the room where I’m watching TV because I somehow lose the feed or press a button and end up in space somewhere, wandering alone and lost. So I can sypathize!
Thanks for coming by, kiddo!
Quite an eye-opener, Paula. Technology has really changed the way that we approach things. A kid perceiving a magazine as an iPad that does not work is very much the same how a lot of teens may view typewriters the same way.
Seeing the video gave me mixed feelings. On one hand, it amazes me just how easy many of the techie things have become that even a one-year old toddler can use and enjoy them. On the other hand, it also made me sad on the potential widespread negative impact this has on people. I recently heard my 8-year old godchild ranting about her not understanding why she needs to learn how to write neatly when she can just simply type things. It’s quite disturbing. Perhaps technology may have gone a wee too far, do you think?
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Adeline, I must confess adore technology! BUT: it’s the reason I can still teach and use my gifts as a highly skilled reading teacher, as I can do it online.
But I feel the same way as you. It makes me nostalgic for simpler times, and the memories I have of holing up in my room reading book after book after book, and being almost deliriously wrapped up in it.
Yet I don’t think it disturbs me so much as it makes me think. Times do change, and I can either be an old gal moaning about it, (and unable to get to school because of physical reasons, so therefore—out of work)…
Or I can accept it, ride with it, and enjoy the process. I’m kind of a positive person, so yep! I’ve decided to go with it. Plenty of kids still need the one-on-one to learn to read, and books are as much in style as ever. I just present them to my students online.
I’m getting over the shock.
Thank you SO much for coming by, Adline! 
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Adeline—I forgot to say! Handwriting does have a place if it matters in a family. But there are many families where it doesn’t.
I, for example, have horrible fine motor control, and it wasn’t fixable with practice. I know, because my mother TRIED. To this day my handwriting is illegible, and even more so now due to arthritis!
So I had straight A’s, always, with a C- in handwriting. So I’m not so sure that trying to be neat while writing cursive is truly the best thing for every child. Yep, for sure for the ones who can! But not so much for the ones like me.
Paula Lee Bright brilliantly posted Steve Jobs Didn’t Give Me a Computer, He Gave Me Back My Life
The video did make me laugh but also it just reinforced my opinion that children already come into the world knowing what they need to know when they get here. That baby won’t need a magazine!
Years ago, while in an antique store, my young son was mesmerized by the rotary phones. He finally said, “I don’t know how to work them.” All he had ever seen was push button!
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Martha, we are two of a kind! I also know, know, KNOW how adaptable kids are, and how quickly they learn, if we don’t get in their way.
If you’d given him five minutes with the old-fashioned phone, without interference? He’d have figured it out easily. There’s a video about that kind of thing. Let me know if you want the URL.
(I love it!)
Fully half the reading problems I see come about because the school (or sometimes the parent) isn’t satisfied with where the child is in the process…and then they’re dissatisfied with the progress of the child, and he then feels like a failure.
In many countries, kids aren’t expected to start reading until 7 or 8! And we are now pushing 4 and 5-year-olds to read right before kindergarten. Human kids aren’t all built that way. The ones who take longer DO catch up, if not pressed.
If pressed? They shut down and may never learn to read successfully. And that’s a fact, straight from a really gifted reading teacher. I hate what the schools and we are doing to young kids. But hey. I’m nobody. :/
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Not sure whether this makes me happy or sad. The magazine industry is already in trouble and thanks to an ipad, the future is maybe a handful of years away but one thing for sure, many of us are now read that would never make it into a magazine.
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Roberta! Here you are again, such a faithful friend, and always with such cogent points. You’re right about magazines, and papers too, I imagine.
I don’t think real live books are yet on their way out. I hope they never will be! Like so many others, curling up on the couch with a good book is always a little cooler than with my iPad or Kindle. And I love ‘em!
Thanks, my friend.
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But I DO LOVE my iPad and Kindle.
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Paula, this reminds me of a recent Science Friday episode. Someone was being interviewed who worked on Kinect. During the long development process, many of the young employees brought in their young children. After being exposed to this new way of accessing information, the children were surprised that the TVs in their own homes didn’t turn on with a wave of the hand.
The children will lead us. And we parents are the griots who provide the history about life back in the day.
Live long and prosper, my friend! Susan
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Oh, how I wish I’d seen that! It sounds terrific. So good to see you here, kiddo.
It will only be a few generations and our ways and means of living will be history. Damn, that really reminds me of my age! But you’re right. Pass on the happy stuff to the kids now, because soon it will fade away.
This time in history truly IS another new frontier.
You live long and prosper too, Susan. ;D
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