> Young Americans don't have easy access to hardware anymore. Young Americans have easy access to software. It is super easy to go to Github and download some o

> Young Americans don't have easy access to hardware anymore. Young Americans have easy access to software. It is super easy to go to Github and download some open source software like Rails to set up a website. And with that, young people can spark an interest that will eventually lead them to their future career. > That's not so easy with today's hardware. In the 1960s, your average person can break open a transistor radio and understand it enough to fix it with their own hands. Personal computers were more complex, but most people can go inside and interact directly with the hardware to make it do their bidding. > But your average cellphone is today just too complex - built with stacks of technologies that a single person can spend a whole lifetime studying. The most a lot of people can ever do is change the battery. > So today, users don't interact with the actual hardware everyday. They interact with the GUI software and slick UX. And as a result, that's what they eventually get interested in and go do as a career. > The integrated chip inside the phone is a beautiful thing. But young folks never get to see it. Never get to tinker with it. And as a result, they grow up never thinking about it - leaving them to do something else.