ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > If I may proselytize, this is our new economy. This is the next new > exciting cycle of invention! In the next 10-15 years, the things that will > be invented will be amazing.
The cliche response here is, "the children are the future." :-) It will be interesting to see whether the kids raised playing with Pis and Arduinos end up being more prolific at innovation than the prior generation raised on Macs and Dell clones. Will more kids go into engineering? (Supposedly the country is declining in graduating engineers.) Or will the overall numbers stay the same, just a bit higher percentage will choose EE over CS as their major. The hardware resurgence is broader than just what's happening in the electronics hobby industry. We're also seeing a growth of hardware startups, as evidenced by the sort of projects showing up on Kickstarter, where many of the products aren't aimed at hardware hackers. Likely the two are interrelated. But despite the growth, the newly minted hardware engineers will still face the reality that for every engineer working on an iPhone there are probably 10,000 working on apps. Hardware jobs just aren't as plentiful due to the laws of general purpose computing. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
