I think this is a classic example of us old timers wishing our kids got the same experience as us.
Back then, you HAD to spend time fiddling with the hardware. Today's kids are much more empowered. Since everything just works they can spend their time creating much more awesome stuff than we ever had the chance to do.
The BBC makes a big deal of "digital natives" (kids who grew up with the Internet) and "digital immigrants" (the old folks).
What this model completely overlooks is that the digital immigrants built it, and the digital natives merely use it to watch videos on Youtube and poke each other on MySpace. Kids these are days are consumers, not producers.
