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www.travelweekly-asia.com 16 | ITB ASIA Official Dailies sCenaRio 1: a recent posting on my friend's Facebook timeline: eight- year-old kids have iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook air. when i was eight i felt cool with my new crayons. ResPonse To The aBoVe PosT: So please understand that I can only afford two kids. LOL! anoTheR ResPonse 1: When I was eight I played masak masak (pretend cooking with miniature cookery utensils) as couldn't afford crayons! Corinne wan, technology editor Blessed are the teChie toddlers and kids, for they too shall inherit the teCh earth TECH Talking FaceTime…" Welcome to the world of techie toddlers and kids, Gen W(ee) who, growing up with YouTube, Netflix and Spotify, are learning to use smartphones or tablets before they are able to talk. This is what Ofcom, sCenaRio 2: My friend visits with her seven-year-old precocious daughter, whose first request, "Can i have your iPhone?" Proceeds to play games, which i have given up on, with the skill of a real gamer. (Mother says daughter pestering her for an iPhone!). Seven-year-old goes to my study, looks at my old Royal typewriter and asks: "What's that?" After explaining that it's the fore-runner of the computer for writing she asks "why no screen", "how words come out?" "how to read books on it", "how to play games"… and the questions just go on. In fact, the typewriter is such an "alien" object to the kids of today that in a recent episode for YouTube channel's "Kids React" series, The Fine Bros (its producer), gathered a "gaggle of precocious children of the 21st century to teach them about typewriters". The result was hilarious. These youngsters even felt sorry for people who didn't have access to modern technology and having to use the typewriter, with one young lass saying: "I feel very sad. They can't Continued on page 17. CREDIT: ISTOCK.