Ironically, if von Neumann was alive today he would probably encourage kids to use some number crunching software rather than "getting used to it". In that sens

Ironically, if von Neumann was alive today he would probably encourage kids to use some number crunching software rather than "getting used to it". In that sense civilization may actually have regressed since the von Neumann / Feynman days. Ditching pen and paper for sophisticated computing tools gave us nuclear power and moon landings within 20 years.