Electronics is no longer an exotic set of specialties

   Many people play Scrabble, and these days some people pay any amount for the latest technological gadget.It would look like a regular Scrabble game, but inside the chips, there would be information that the board could read you play your chips, and the board automatically reads the word, calculates your score and adds it to your previous score - each player's score would be shown on the board for all to see.

   If I wanted to challenge someone, I could press a challenge button, and the board would have the data of all the Scrabble words acceptable and not, if it was acceptable or not, and address the scores in this way they turned Battleship into an electronic battleship, I'm surprised it was not done with Scrabble.It used to be when you played bowling, you had to keep track of your score, now the electronics do it for you.

   It's because electronics is no longer an exotic set of specialties. Electronics is so pervasive that all common functions have become - common. You can purchase building blocks and make a functioning system with little more than the 'standard knowledge' gained in high school. Yes, most high schoolers, as a part of their education, encounter tasks like programming and assembling systems using cables and processor modules...it's a basic skill set like using Microsoft applications and searching for things with Google. No engineering is required to make a robot, for instance - a 17-year-old is on a team of six kids - all art students - who win in robotics competitions each year. Their robot team, without user direction, accomplishes things like building a wall, faster than the other team, throwing unused material into trash bins, then climbing up the wall, down the other side, and inspecting the work. The robots that do this are designed and fabricated in six weeks, including the layout and fabrication of printed circuit boards. This is a skill set these kids will use as they become architects, for instance...no engineering required.