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by guelo 5459 days ago
Not anymore, they start out young nowadays. My 2 year old niece is a pro with an iPhone.
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Actually, outside of us and developed countries, there are millions, if not billions of people who have never used computers. I was one till age 13
And I was a pro with a mouse (Apple Mac Plus) at 2. Young minds are very good at learning how things work.
Well then, they're called babies.
Not even then. My kid was 6 weeks old when I first put the iPad in front of him. Babies get visual feedback right away, especially when it happens right a the point they're touching. It took maybe 30 seconds of training before he was pounding on the screen to make stuff happen.

This was even before he figured out real world things like stuffed animals.