Of Mice And Men

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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If you are looking at a computer screen, your right hand is probably resting on a mouse. To the left of that mouse (or above, if you’re on a laptop) is your keyboard. As you work on the computer, your right hand … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:05.0	There's a sub-genre of kid videos on YouTube that are named things like
0:09.0	My toddler masters the iPhone and Baby Works iPad Perfectly.
0:14.0	Hi this is Bridger say hi Bridger he is playing with the iPad and he just turned to
0:20.7	Some of these video titles also say things like must see in all caps but like all
0:26.8	things that say must see it's not true you can totally do without seeing these
0:32.1	videos oh you want to change the background to blue you can totally do without seeing these videos.
0:32.8	Oh, you want to change the background to blue.
0:35.4	Mostly it's a bunch of babies drooling and poking at iPhones.
0:38.9	The thing is, though, these tiny drooling iPhone pokers are actually able to execute commands, open up programs they want to use, play
0:46.1	games and take photos, and despite what we parents believe, it isn't because our kids are smart. You're so smart, Bridger?
0:54.0	Well, some of them might be smart.
0:56.0	Bridger seems pretty smart.
0:58.0	That's producer Louisa Beck.
1:00.0	But mostly, it's just that iPhones, actually computers in general, are just incredibly easy to use.
1:08.0	Today's user interface in the modern computer is what I call grunt and point.
1:13.0	It's very primitive communication.
1:15.0	So that's why I call it grunts.
1:17.0	That's Christina Engelbart.
1:19.0	Her father, Doug Engelbart, had a vastly different vision for what computers could be than these super simple devices that toddlers can use.
1:27.5	Doug Engelbart's vision required us to actually learn stuff.
1:33.6	In order to really push the envelope of human effectiveness
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