I have often said that after the introduction of the iPad, and watching how my kids interact with modern smart phones and tablets, they will look at our computing as my generation looks at mainframes and minis. It's not that they won't use it, but it will be like my computer classes back in college, in the late 80s, when I had to do my assignment in the CS building from a terminal connected to the mini. Why would you want to?
It's not just smartphones and tablets either. All of the technology trends that we create that catch-on with our youth and later seep into older society. Yet, we as adults have designed these innovations. Is it because we know more, but still can think and act like children. I've been accused of acting like a child, quite often, around the house, actually.
It just made me think this morning of what if we gave a design brief or creative brief to kids? What would they come up with? Sure, a bunch of it would be nuts, but I'd have to think there would be an awesome idea in there that most adults, no matter how much vodka, would not come up with.
Maybe we should give them an Etch-A-Sketch and let them have at it?
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