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I hope it's enough. It's not like young hackers can easily disassemble/reassemble stuff in the real world like we older guys did.

And yes, you can take apart a cell phone or a tv or whatever. But the risk:cost ratio isn't nearly as favorable as it was for the previous few generations. The chance of irreversibly breaking it is far higher, and the chance you'll learn very much by just looking are much lower. Likewise, nobody's stopping you from wrapping wire around magnets to make your own memory... but it's not like that's a "thing" kids get exposed to now. But it's all there in minecraft.

(It's also seriously hard to find children's science kits worth buying as the culture of extreme protection of children have turned them into junk. This is one of the only frontiers I'm aware of that's open to children (without the guiding hand of a science-mentor) to learn and play and create in this way)



>It's not like young hackers can easily disassemble/reassemble stuff in the real world like we older guys did.

Now it's all digital. Everyone is buying their 7-year-old a copy of IDA Pro these days.




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