Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Condemnation of this is pretty arbitrary. Like any device parents need to exercise parental control. If it is a crutch, it is the parents issue, not the issue with the tool.
This breaks the paradigm on how people interact with computers, much like the Ipad has done. Odd that in 50 years of using computers no one has gone back to the dwg board to change the basic computer-human interaction, except for a few.
People talked to computers on Star Trek and the crew also used tablet computers.
People mocking this way of accessing info is hilarious; i don't see them driving down to the library to avoid using the internet. As with anything it is up to the user to decide to what extent it will be used.
It might have its limitations, but it's a very new product and probably will be tweaked in the years to come.
Anyway, you know that on bitog, if you don't bash internet, facebook, GPS navigation, rear view cameras and blind spot monitors and iphones, you're not cool.
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