[jhermsmeyer]

Those that are driven to make things will be inspired by what the post-pc landscape has to offer, not dissuaded.

I don't want to completely discount this short post, but the FUD here seems misplaced. Many more people are being attracted to post-pc devices vs. pcs. The fraction that go on to become engineers will make for a larger pool of hackers, not a smaller one.

Things don't have to be hard to inspire one to hack. They just need to be sufficiently interesting.