Of course. Long gone are the days you could tinker with your machines and appliances, fix your problems, replace oartd, hack together improvements, or simply ta

Of course. Long gone are the days you could tinker with your machines and appliances, fix your problems, replace oartd, hack together improvements, or simply take it apart to show your kid how it works. Okay maybe not long gone but certainly on the way out. Appliances and computers and even cars are getting ever more encumbered in terms of being able to fiddle with them, both physically but above all in terms of software.