Talk about a social experiment.
A 13-year-old British boy was given his dad’s Sony Walkman with no instructions and told to just discover the device.
In addition to his ramblings and musings about using the portable cassette player, the most interesting part was that “It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”
Technology has definitely moved fast over the last ten years but it also seems that kids have gotten…um, dumber. What 13-year-old kid isn’t inquisitive enough to take something like a Walkman and open it up?
Or, of he’s that stumped about it, at least Google “How to use a Walkman.”
Read the entire thing here.
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Wow, that is quite impressive that things have moved fast enough that kids are unaware of technology we were using daily a little over a decade ago. I doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that I was transferring all my CDs to tapes so I could listen to them on my walkman (a CD player was too much of an investment for me). But on another note… don’t tapes have “Side A” and “Side B” written on them? Wouldn’t that be a clue to flipping the tape over? I suppose reading is too time consuming for the people and children of today.
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