Keeping Our Human Edge In A Machine-Dominated World - Forbes Middle East

Am I alone in thinking that it is a shame we can fix fewer things by ourselves these days? Personally, I always drew great satisfaction from fixing a broken piece of equipment. I enjoyed opening it – against the manufacturers' warnings – to discover how it actually worked, and then fix it using superglue or a paperclip. We are increasingly denied this feeling of being in control. It started with simple, loose parts being replaced by horrendously expensive integrated parts.