[gregpilling]

I have a gaggle of children, and I have noticed that my 5 year old son thinks many devices have voice control, and he views this as normal.

My 11 year old son and 8 year old always think every screen has a touch interface, but they don't use voice.

To me, it seems that there is a break in those generations. The 5 year old is voice activating his tablet, amazon fire tv, watches his parents voice command their phones driving - this is all totally normal to him and you can see he will often try a voice command on a device unfamiliar to him.

The older boys think using a PC is novel, and look at me strangely when I tell them about DOS and Windows 3.1 //// oh well...

[walterbell]

Do they think all the magic takes place on the devices, or somewhere else? e.g. do they think of "syncing" as something that occurs directly between devices, or that involves services in the middle?

[gregpilling]

I don't believe he thinks about it at all . It has just always been so to him, like the sun comes up in the morning.

[tajen]

Which commands do they use to start? "Ok, tablet"? Soon your next child will wave at the device and wonder about the appendice with plenty of keys attached to the computer.