Students - children of sorrow these days. An original approach for explaining the decrease in the number of engineering and IT students is given by Quocirca analyst Rob Bamforth who says that today's people aren't too tech savvy at all because technical products are now so easy to use that there's a major lack of knowledge and curiosity about technology as a whole. Also, the lack of positive role models is bemoaned, but nothing beats Hal Abelson's argument. (Source)