The author is specifically talking about designing analog electronic circuits: > Among them are IoT nodes, sensors and front-ends, actuators including motors,

The author is specifically talking about designing analog electronic circuits: > Among them are IoT nodes, sensors and front-ends, actuators including motors, test and measurement instrumentation, boards and interconnects, line drivers/receivers, motor drivers, physical-level wired/wireless links, MEMS devices, RF functions, power sources and systems, EMI, noise, thermal extremes…and that’s just a partial list. These roles and functions are not going away as long as the laws of physics, as we know them, remain in place. Woodworking can be analog if the wood shapes and positions (and maybe velocities, etc.) are used to quantitatively represent something other than the wood itself, as an analogue to those quantities. For example, you can carve some wooden cams to drive a little automaton, or you can make a clock out of wood gears, where the angles of rotation of the gears represent the amount of time that has passed. But this article is specifically about electronics.