And Cloud based computing looks like a great idea until you look at a map of the cell coverage of the Western half of the United States.
Once you realize that this concept leaves you reliant on third party services, it becomes less attractive.
Western half, hell, the entire country except for the coastal regions is spotty or nonexistent outside of major population centers, and that's even before you factor in weather issues.
Anyway, I'd say give it time. Time was that it looked like hobbyist electronics and other tinkerer hobbies were all but dead, but in the last ten years we've seen an enormous resurgence in the form of the "makers movement" and associated stuff. And half of that is kids/teens who grew up with Playstations and never even touched an electronics-lab set in their formative years, discovering possibilities they never knew existed. I would consider that to be evidence that the creative/doing urge can't be so easily purged from human nature, no matter how the industry tries. PCs will still be around for "doers" to rediscover when tablets have given way to whatever the next Future Of All Computing Forever is.
