Maybe they went to Shenzhen, after the US electronics manufacturing industry left the country in search of cheap labor and higher profits? Of course this is mo

Maybe they went to Shenzhen, after the US electronics manufacturing industry left the country in search of cheap labor and higher profits? Of course this is mostly hardware hacking: https://www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/8620/touring-the-hardware-hacker-hangouts-of-shenzhen https://www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/8620/touring-the-har... However, software hacking also requires access to the low-level components and as abstractions get more and more complex, unpacking them becomes too much work and people become architects, not hackers, expecting all their tools to work only as documented and building with only the pre-approved, security-tested Legos (note that many of the software hackers seem to have gone to work for the NSA and other state-sponsored hacking groups, and their exploits have escaped into the wild, leading to the heavy focus on security consciousness, which also discourages the use of hacks to solve problems). Note here 'hacking' means using features of systems that aren't described in the manuals and documentation to achieve some goal, rather like custom modifications of automobiles - and with modern cars, that just gets harder and harder to do. A better title might have been, where have all the experimental risk-takers gone? (A: most of them were eaten by the Borg).