I wonder how many fewer engineers we have due to teenagers not being able to help fix up old cars anymore?
@Meaningness How many fewer chemists do we have thanks to chemical experimentation being de facto illegal now?
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@St_Rev I don’t know… How many professional chemists got serious about doing it at home before university? Doubt that was common, but unsure -
@Meaningness Feynman got his start fooling around with tube radios and the like, IIRC. Now it's all solid-state black boxes. -
@St_Rev Yes… I suppose some technologies are solved problems, though. We don’t need many analog tronix guys.
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