than the car I learned how to drive in.
Than the car I drive now.
Than most computers circa ten years ago and previous.
Whatever happened to brightly colored plastic blocks that lock together and it was up to the player's imagination to determine what they'd do? Fer crying out loud! I took old sets, early 80's stuff, I made spear-chucking catapults, chain-guns, blenders, (non-flying) airplanes, (working, inaccurate) clocks... jeez. It's neat, it's nifty, it does everything and even makes Julienne fries, but c'mon...are we trying to spoon-feed imaginations? Are "black box" integrated programmable components better than creating something purely physical that works, or doesn't, based on principles you can gather just by looking at it, rather than by hacking into programming?
(sigh)
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sean |
