8 Jun
2002
8 Jun
'02
8:25 p.m.
Hi,
Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com> said:
Tony Duell wrote:
It used to be that we encouraged people to learn and do.
> Any suggestions as to how these
trends can be reversed?
Thanks Tony . . . . The last big
electronics boom started with WWII
surplus and a gentleman named Howard Anthony who started manufacturing
kits. Even simple things can still be built, and from those beginnings
we can hatch a new generation of hardware hackers/builders.
At least here in the UK some people are making a positive effort to
encourage youngsters to build radio equipment from scratch or from kits,
we have a number of kit suppliers. No-one seems to be doing much on the
digital front though. Schools could do more, I think, because if you
don't get someone interested by the time they're thirteen or so, you
never will.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
You basically hit at the heart of the matter.
The reality is that US
society on the whole does not do hacking at a hardware level anymore
(which I suspect is the case in other parts of the world) and Radio Shack <snip>
> Now we encourage people to buy and expend.