This is a good point. If I would have grown up today I would possibly have done other things that aligned with the same kind of interests, and perhaps even have

This is a good point. If I would have grown up today I would possibly have done other things that aligned with the same kind of interests, and perhaps even have gotten further. Kids these days can, and do, build actual robots and UAVs with onboard processors with more FLOPS than you could even dream of back in the old 75MHz pentium days.