Steve Jobs didn’t let his kids use iPads
Posted on Monday, September 15 at 5:03am | By Amy Graff
Steve Jobs was the father of two teenage girls and a son when he passed away in 2011. These kids grew up with a visionary father who co-founded one of the best-known tech companies. Jobs led the world into the digital age with gadgets that transformed the way we listen to music, watch movies, communicate, live our lives.
You would imagine that his children’s rooms would have been filled with iPods, iPhones and iPads.
That’s not the case.In an article in the Sunday New York Times, reporter Nick Bilton says he once asked Jobs “So, your kids must love the iPad?”
Jobs response: “They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
The Times article examines the growing trend among the California Silicon Valley tech set to limit children’s technology use. Many of the people behind the social media platforms, gadgets and games that are consuming our kids’ time and minds aren’t actually allowing their own children to waste an entire Saturday afternoon playing Minecraft on the iPad.
A quote in The Times from Chris Anderson, father of five and chief executive of 3D Robotics, pretty much defines why Anderson and his colleagues are limiting technology at home. “My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules,” says Anderson, formerly the editor of Wired. “That’s because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I’ve seen it in myself, I don’t want to see that happen to my kids.”
Some of these Silicon Valley engineers and execs are even going to the extreme of sending their kids to computer-free schools. A Times story from 2011 reported that engineers and execs from Apple, eBay, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Yahoo are sending their kids to a Waldorf elementary school in Los Altos, Calif., where you won’t find a single computer or screen of any sort. Also, kids are discouraged from watching television or logging on at home.
https://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2014/09/15/steve-jobs-didnt-let-his-kids-use-ipads/#26764101=0
Meanwhile RW is hooking up the Google I.V. to our kids so the tech giant can track everything about them from birth through death.
Way to go RW BOE
… do it
foragainst the kids.Agreed
The students in Ridgewood already use computers at home and in school. The 1:1 initiative just standardizes the computer and protocols used.
The smartphones that students carry are computers. Now instead of just having all the bad selfies companies that track use will also know about searches for the social studies term paper.
Steve was mad as a hatter.
Clearly you have no understanding of the Google business model.
Steve had nannies to take the kids at 6:30am on Saturday when he just needed an another 1/2 hour of sleep to fell human enough to function. Me, I can only afford an ipad for those moments.
my kids don’t use ipads or computers at home…now they are at school…i don’t see the need for a 6 year old to be on a computer