This article
introduces a new concept of generation called the “Mobile Born” – a generation
of kids that have been raised using their mom’s smartphone. When you go out and
it at a restaurant, you can easily see kids, even babies interacting with smart
phones and ipads. When this mobile-born generation grows up, they will have a
dramatic impact on how companies, consumers and society as a whole manage and
view technology. When these generation reach their teenage years, their ability
to process information and levels of interactivity will go far beyond what’s
possible today. The winner in the future will be the company pioneering through
this new direction. The other end of the generation however laments the decline
of the interpersonal communication. No one’s writing letters anymore and people
aren’t talking face-to-face as frequently. Although this is true, the mobile-born
will not even realize what they are missing.
Reading this
article, I felt privileged to be born in the middle of the very opposite
generation. Growing up, I wasn’t exposed to smartphones and ipads but as an
adult, I have the opportunity to have experienced both the hand written letters
and the fascinating tech gadgets. When I see babies in the restaurant play with
ipads while their parents are eating I secretly think that I don’t want to
raise my children like that but on the other hand wonder if it is even possible
to raise your children mobile-free these days. I don’t think it is all negative
because sometimes I see kids learning the alphabets through the ipad and
singing along the songs they have learned. However, I had read an article
before that these days, teenagers are used to using smartphones and computers
so much that when given a pencil and paper, they do not know how to spell
certain words and especially in a country such as China and Japan where they
use Chinese characters, it is more serious. Despite all these facts, it will be
inevitable to prepare for the mobile-born generation.
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