Oh sure. I'm sure what I did was incredibly annoying to someone, if not downright dangerous. I don't know what the solution is though. We've denuded our societ

Oh sure. I'm sure what I did was incredibly annoying to someone, if not downright dangerous. I don't know what the solution is though. We've denuded our society of independent ways of knowing accessible to the young: hacking, cracking, dangerous chemistry sets, and so on. On one hand there are "good" reasons for this. On the other hand: where will the next generation of engineers come from if they can't combine learning with individuation? I really have to underscore this: as a teenager, I had zero to negative interest in anything sanctioned by school or by the adults I was surrounded with. It was by definition lame, constraining, and uninteresting.