In line with this, we were recently delighted with two videos in which a lizard and a frog deceptively tried to snack on real virtual insects from an iPad screen. Also well-known is the video in which a toddler is deceived when she tries to 'swipe' and 'pinch' a regular magazine. The title is aptly chosen: “ A Magazine Is An iPad That Doesn't Work ”.
Immediately after Steve Jobs' death, a journalist from the Algemeen Dagblad wanted to know from me what Jobs' greatest contribution to humanity was. That is very clear. Jobs popularized three obvious finger gestures. Scrolling through applications with your thumb, tapping the screen for a magnification step and continuously enlarging the image with your thumb and index finger. The latter was already possible in 1983 on the Video Place system, but thanks to Jobs it is now as normal as, say, giving your thumbs up in approval.
Almost unnoticed, we have slipped into the post-PC era. Suddenly, we deal with information in com brother cell phone list pletely different ways. With a smartphone or tablet in our hands, we are constantly in sensory contact with our digital reality. It is indistinguishable from the real thing and is also simply part of it. Keyboard and mouse have made way for multi-touch, but other long-awaited interaction possibilities are now also making their entrance one after the other. Think of the Kinect with its motion sensors; think of speech recognition butlers such as Siri and Dragon ; and we are no longer surprised by brain interfaces either.
Not only does this change the way we deal with information – this new explosion of intimacy makes information itself the seventh sense, following the sixth: our intuition. Everything we think and can dream becomes reality as if by magic, complete with different contexts and scenarios. Aladdin is nothing compared to this: the genie is out of the bottle; and we are wishing!