Comments on: A computer revolution through a child's eyes

A user interface revolution is upon us: my 3-year-old son can use my iPhone thanks more to its accessibility than his smarts.

[deecee]

All this discussion remind me, in order to educate my 3 year old better, I should keep him away from all this touch interface and expose him to the raw world without the convenience of a search engine, or a touch interface.
As everyone rely more and more on someone else to provide the convenience of "an easy interface" for them to interact with the real world, he will make millions in the future by being the the last few practical persons left who can design and implement all the complex hardware/softare required to "spoon feed" all the people who demand "easy interface". He can enternally claim dominance over all the other brain dead zombie co-hors of his. So people, keep letting your 3 year old play with your iPhone and rank high on WOW, I am going to let my son work with Erector sets, DC motors, and learn assembly code soon (by 5 if I have to force him to).
Come on people, wake up, touch interface is nice, but someone have to design and implement them. One should not purely rely on convenience in lieu of reality, a major part of learning is learning to do something that is hard and unintuitive at first. Most parts of the world is not getting easier or more intuitive, but instead only more complex as our understanding of the world expands. The better prepared your kids are to face that part of the world, the better off they will truly be in the future, learing to rely too mcuh on an easy interface only serve to cripple them in their life.