Read Matt Berggren's lastest blog post for New Electronics:
Exerpt:
Over dinner with some friends, I'd gotten into a discussion about my earliest motivations to get into engineering and computer science / computing systems.
The conversation read like a page right out of the engineer's playbook. Boy gets curious; finds an early fascination with how things work; boy begins taking things apart to quell that curiosity (mindlessly ignoring the steps involved in putting them back together – dinner guests laugh); boy gets computer; learns to bang out Assembler; graduates to C & other high level languages. Rinse. Repeat. All the way through high school and on to college.
Then, the conversation took a decidedly darker turn. A turn towards what our kids do. Or rather, what kids – in general – don't do any more. "Too much time in front of the TV" or "too many video games" or "they just don't go outside like we used to"… "I can remember when…," etc, etc, etc.
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