I Sent this to my Children, to Make them Feel Old

[steepholm]

We all remember the introduction of the codex, don't we? And the difficulties some people had getting their heads round the concept?

Well, here's someone looking at books through the opposite end of the chronoscope, and finding them equally befuddling...

I feel as if I have witnessed the birth and death of a bright star.

Thanks to karinmollberg for the link.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's shattering.

Nine

[fjm.livejournal.com]

The way she has totally *nailed* that two finger "enlarge" motion is fascinating. I may use this with students later this year to show the degree to which babies absorb cultural codes very very young.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Extraordinary. An important world-historical moment of cultural transition captured for all time.

[ewein2412]

it's eye-opening, funny, and cute, but I think that the video-maker's comment that this will "remain so" for the rest of the toddler's life isn't really giving the toddler enough credit for being able to decode the world. I mean, before he learned to talk, my kid used to think that a curtain pull could be used as a telephone. He did figure it out eventually.