A colleague of mine shared a story which happened recently with his young daughter (around 6yo) in a car:
- Daddy, daddy, play the "aweem-ba-we aweem-ba-we" song!
- I can't right dear, I'm tying your seatbelts!
- Sure you can, just tell Siri what to do!
I think that we need to start thinking in terms of "augmented natives" as a name for young human beings who have always grown up, not with Internet in itself, or the Web, or e-mail, or IM, but with invisible aunts and uncles who do stuff around the house for them - and increasingly outside the house also. Those humans are not just always online, that thing's like the baseline now, they are also interfacing not by writing, but by speaking and by nascent mind-reading interfaces. Like their forefathers, i.e. us, they are growing up and have their minds shapen in a very new, very different environment from the last generation.
Combined with Augmented reality in the graphics sense, and we're staring a brave new world in the face.
