But I agree with Lan. I fear the day when that's all that's available. My younger brother has recently started getting into computers. He probably wouldn't have if all that he'd had was an appliance, without stuff to break. I mean, look at the state of electronics these days. Electronic stuff is factory produced to exacting precision using throwaway materials. And how many electronics hobbyists do you see? Nuts and Volts is the only serious electronics hobbyist magazine left, and there used to be lots, it seemed.
As technology moves forward, the hobbyists go away. We have seen this with cars, radio, electronics. Most hobbyists are hanging out on the web right now. There will always be technical hobbyists, but do to economics and complexity, their area of study will continue to change.
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