Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Attitude & Aptitude, Childhood, Creative Development, Creativity, My Fatherhood, Otis
I’ve written in the past how Otis has taken after his dad in terms of loving tech.
An iPad encouraged him crawl at 10 months old.
He uses Alexa to interact with the house.
Youtube is his preferred entertainment channel, which he is incredibly proficient at working his way around … which, given the way they are running things, means we have to pay even closer attention to what he’s doing than ever.
He doesn’t understand why things like the television don’t respond to the same hand gestures as Daddy’s iPhone.
It’s amazing.
But what really blew me away was when a few weeks ago, he called me over to show me this:
Yes, it is a better looking version of me, but the reason I was blown away was he did it.
All of it.
From finding a photo of his Dad … uploading it to an app on his iPad … to editing, creating and playing with the image.
And he’s only three years old.
THREE!
Now I appreciate the technology is more available than in the past and the programs are more user-friendly than in the past … but it still astounds me how much kids can embrace and engage the unknown.
Sure it’s been designed with them in mind – which is testimony to the people behind the app – but for a 3 year old to be able to manipulate photographs astounds me and, with a bit of luck, means the future of the World might be in better hands than those in the present.
Here’s hoping.