Back in my day, the BBC Micro ecosystem meant that your parents had very little to do with it -- you had access to a good programmable computer at school. I was

Back in my day, the BBC Micro ecosystem meant that your parents had very little to do with it -- you had access to a good programmable computer at school. I was lucky enough to have a ZX Spectrum at home, which my (decidedly not middle/upper-class) parents bought to keep me occupied with games, and which I figured out how to program; but there was no mentoring, guidance or stacked decks of computer science PhD parents in my history, and neither in many of the histories of similar inquisitive kids who had a manual and a basic home computer. I'm actively thinking about ways the technology of today can be used to bring back this golden age of opportunity, thoughts are welcome.