The Mechanics

Some kids like to make things work.
They hang around the fabricators and
watch the fiber stalks go in and the cloth
come out, watch the scrap parts reform.

Give them tools and training software
and let them loose. Let them geek and
gossip on how to do and what to do.
We need what they can learn.

Intimate knowledge of the close at hand,
creative play, praise for making some
basic of life easier and more elegant.
This is the focus, this is the point.

We are all scientists and engineers and
our materials are plants and minerals
and air and water and theories and
algorithms and close observation.