I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
Teenagers these days grow up with a phone instead of MSDOS or a C64 and how will they ever learn to tinker? How can we transition from play to programming, allowing people to create their own games, like in the old days you could play on a MUD or MUSH (I liked MUSHes better!) and from text adventure to community to programming it had everything. And I want the same thing for the web and messaging. People writing bots. People writing CGI scripts or whatever. I want it all! I want it now!
@kensanata I for my part ended up trying things out with my phone, a good old Galaxy S3. Dunno if you wanna call installing CyanogenMod "tinkering", but four years ago, that was quite an adventure for me. But it got me started with computers and stuff. I didn't know much about this back then, just followed random guides online, and at multiple points thought I'd bricked it. I slept over it, spend a few more hours the next day research and was able to fix it again.
@Nuntius That is a an excellent counter argument. Parents should give their teenage kids phones that can be jail-broken!