FIRST 50 years ago / 50 years from now.

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Originally Posted by tjf

I was talking to some of 1257's students about science fiction literature and thought that, FIRST is a type of science fiction. 50 years ago this type of thing could only have been fiction and yet it is. If you were to explain to someone in 1966, 3 years before the moon landing, that teenagers would have the capability do build machines complicated as the work done at NASA, with some equation overlap?

The Jetson's boy Elroy: 1963.
Automations have existed long before that.

A large portion of radio and electronics were actually influenced by young people. There are examples of some of that with citations in places like the ARRL handbook.

Keep in mind that automobiles were well accessible to young people even before the 1960s.

My Father attended IBM school as part of vocational education before the age of 20 years old which was during the Vietnam conflict and before he was drafted.

My Father used to work on Sage radar defense systems:
https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History...nsesystem.html