The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
As someone who came of tinkering age in the early 70s and spend lots of time taking apart and repairing old machines, I wish to express another concern. How do we expect to hook the next generation of engineers if there is no opportunity to tinker as a child? For me that spark (excuse the pun) definitely came from those early &quot;break it&#x2F;fix it&quot; sessions. Is tinkering going to be relegated to playing with the public APIs of our devices? I assume that most devices don&#x27;t have public APIs - you need to get a dev license and sign an NDA. What ten year old is going to do that? Will only the children of engineers at major tech companies be able to tinker? I see bad unintended long term consequences for our society.