DH: You don't learn much by taking apart a dynabook, except not to do it. It had never hit me before, but the current generation of kids don't even get to hack

DH: You don't learn much by taking apart a dynabook, except not to do it. It had never hit me before, but the current generation of kids don't even get to hack the operating system. Perhaps not in 1993, but now we have full open source environments to play in. The code may not always be very comprehensible, but at least it's possible to see what's going on under the hood.