Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy

This is really scary upon first read.

I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers “Look Dad, it’s an iPad.”

[From Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy]

The diagram in the passage really said it all. More computer users will appreciate what is becoming of the future of computing. Yes, you should just *IGNORE* the geeks, because after all, logic and reasoning are acquired skills, they don't belong to human nature and will remain a minority in population.