Open source, helping the children of the future.
The children today have it lucky. These days children have iThis and iThat as well as cell(mobile) phones, netbooks, laptops and the now common desktop pc. The problem with these is that the exploration potential of these devices is very limited.
You can open them up and see, what? A circuit board, a few extraneous components and that is about it. There is nothing to show how it is working. Nothing to pull out and be surprised by a loud sproing and greeted with a twisted metal ribbon which must be wrestled into a tight coil again.
About the only thing the children of the future have left now is exploration of the mind. Not theirs, their mind is still forming. They can only explore the mind of the people who programmed these closed mystery black or these days, multi-coloured boxes. Most of the time they can only do that by pressing buttons and going through menus to try and guess what the programmer was thinking. This is why hacking or jail breaking these closed and proprietary items is so popular.
Fortunately open source software has reached the point where it has become mainstream.
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