“No user serviceable parts inside” has become a norm for all utility gadgets and machinery that are in use today.
Just a few decades ago, this was not the case. You could open up a home appliance, or a radio, and try to fix it. You could service your motor vehicle all by yourself. You could fix a lot of things that today we have to visit the service center for.
This, of course, has made our lives easier. But, at the same time, it has made our next generation less curious. The foundation of our inquisitive being that requires us to be a maker, has unknowingly been lost.
Our kids are no longer the budding, enterprising makers of the new. Rather, they are the copiers and assemblers of what exists—what we like to call the new maker.
If you look closely, these new makers are just factory workers, trained to follow procedures and protocols to produce each unit exactly the same.
With no usual ways to grow, learn, and survive, the creative and curious young have been killed.
This has bought an irreversible change. We no longer look at our kids and believe, and dream, that they are the makers of the future world—because there are no user serviceable parts inside.