Young people are 'lost generation' who can no longer fix gadgets, warns professor
Found on The Telegraph on Monday, 05 January 2015
Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong.
“All of these things in our home do seem to work most of the time and because they don’t break we just get used to them. They have almost become like Black Boxes which never die. And when they do we throw them away and buy something new.
While this is true, it's also a fact that those who actually want to fix things are facing problems: the industry makes it especially hard to take the gadgets apart. They do their best to turn them into throw-away gadgets. Nevertheless, try to fix it. It can't get much worse.