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The problem isn't that most people don't care to learn, it's that platforms become more and more locked down to the point that people can't learn. Or even if they can, the device is so "sealed" that they can't dive in even if they knew how.

A big part of the reason I got into computers and software development was because I wanted to know how things worked. And I could do that: I could dig into things, write simple programs, take things apart, put them together, all that. Young minds these days have fewer opportunities to satisfy any curiosity they may have about these sorts of things.




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