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Monday, January 28, 2008

A video of a toddler playing Wii tennis makes me ponder both what future skill sets are going to emerge in 20 years with kids growing up on the Wii … and how meaningless my own Wii success is by comparison.

by Kevin Makice

An impoverished Ph.D. student at the Indiana University School of Informatics. Give him a UX research job.

Local blogger gee from The Whateverlah Blog posted this video of a toddler playing Wii tennis with another one of teams of elderly Wii bowlers in an NFL Films kind of documentary on a cross city tourney.

I wonder where this kid is going to be in 20 years and what impact the Wii will have on his development. Archie, at 4, mostly watches everyone else play Wii games. He liked boxing, but only for about 20 seconds. Carter is a pro bowler, according to Wii, and is also getting in regular reps in Smooth Moves. Does that mean Archie’s tendons will be less damaged but his reflexes slower? Will the next core interaction paradigm in the future workplace require mastery of The Waiter?

More importantly, how much can I enjoy my Wii victories knowing there is a two-year-old somewhere who can kick my butt.

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One Comment

  1. evil spock added these pithy words on January 31, 2008 | Permalink

    Why worry about the two-year old, when I’m willing to kick your butt in boxing, baseball, and tennis anytime?

    I suck at bowling at golf btw.

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