I just love this video of a one-year-old trying to handle a magazine like an iPad that’s making the rounds right now (via TUAW).

While there are way to many people out there that would use this as an example of how the world is going down, technology is bad, Apple is evil – in short, how it is a bad thing that there are kids that miss out on growing up with physical copies of books or magazines – this is a wonderful, concise example of how Steve Jobs changed our world.

There are people that know it right now, and there are people that don’t think of him as an important historical figure yet; but in 20 years, I don’t think anyone of the latter will be left. It’s then that the first generation that grew up with the results of Jobs’ work from the second they were born – whose first birthday was captured on an iPhone, who had their bedtime stories red to them from an iPad, who watched movies on that long car trip on an iOS device, who take a 500g-tablet instead of a 5kg-backpack to school – is standing on their on feet. And just like today’s 60-year-olds wonder about the proficiency my generation has with computers because we got to learn how to use them in our early childhood, we will wonder about how the world has changed in ways we could neither foresee nor keep up with.

This coming generation will be the first unencumbered by legacy computing idioms, open to whatever we hand them, ready to take it places we can’t think of because we’re stuck with our workflows. It is then that Apple’s groundbreaking changes in direction will truly flourish: Those kids won’t scuff at a device that doesn’t offer them an USB port to plug their flash drives into – rather they’ll laugh about the old ways that seem so impractical to them.

It is then that everyone will acknowledge Steve Jobs’ legacy. There will be grim people that wish for an alternate history, one in which someone else laid out the tracks, one in which Apple did not get turned around and made into what it is today; there will be people that disagree with Jobs’ vision and Apple’s work, and there will not be a consensus on whether the company is good or evil, right or wrong, totalitarian or libertarian, empowering or limiting people in their choices. But no matter whether one likes it or not, with that generation having gone through their teens there will not be any doubt about how profoundly Jobs’s work has changed society.