'Technology codes our minds,' he writes in the video's description. The girl's father, Jean-Louis Constanza, presents 'A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work' as naturalistic observation-a Jane Goodall among the chimps moment-that reveals a generational transition. When nothing happens, she pushes against her leg, confirming that her finger works just fine-or so a title card would have us believe.
In the following scenes she appears to pinch, swipe and prod the pages of paper magazines as though they too were screens. In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons.
