Babies are assumed unable to create anything so we create for them, mostly toys. Because they’re not expected to create there is no media where babies can publish. And because they can’t publish there is no way for babies to stay in touch.
Baby brains are severely limited compared to older children. Yet at the same time baby brains are capable of something that older brains cannot do: learn to recognize and use the complicated patterns of language.
A child aged 7 or 8 that hasn’t learned a language will never be able to speak. Babies are born with a growing brain and it is this growing brain that can learn language. Beyond a certain point in the growth of the brain language can no longer be learned.
While babies can’t do much they are able to learn things older brains can’t. There is language, but there’s also the awareness of other people. Babies don’t know that when they can’t see somebody that person still exists, it’s something they have to learn.
This makes me wonder: what else can babies learn, really complicated stuff that only very young brains can learn? What would happen if babies could communicate with each other remotely through some kind of devices? Which patterns would emerge, and what would they learn from them?
I think baby media is a completely unexplored but potentially huge domain.
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