[time-nuts] Help - Hope?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20060102.141403.105215125.cfmd at bredband.net>, Magnus Danielson writes:
> 
> 
>>But to answer your question, younger people is still attracted and there is
>>still plenty of people having the right mind for these things around.
> 
> 
> A major difference for these younger people is that the technology
> of today is reverse engineering resistant.

True

> There is practically nothing to learn today by taking things apart:
> you can't see how they work.

True

On a similar topic, what worries me now is that it will get more and 
more difficult for hobbiests to build things, now many chips are only 
available in surface mount. That trend will continue.

I can't see too many children being able to build circuits the way I 
used to, since it will be very difficult/impossible to solder components 
together. That must have a knock-on effect later in life, since nobody 
would have taken much interst in electronics as a child, since they were 
unable to make anything.

Perhaps circuits published in magazines will need to use power 
transistors, just so they are of a size that is practical to construct 
without specialist tools and skill. Perhaps children of the future will 
have to build your own 741 out of a bunch of 2N3055's.