Visited a tech museum in Chicago and their 'repair' display bothered me

I was at the Museum of Science and Industry last weekend and they had a whole section on modern electronics. The big interactive display showed a phone being 'repaired' by a robot arm that just swapped the whole main board. The label called it 'advanced repair technology' and said it took 90 seconds. That's not repair, that's just swapping a $200 part. It felt like they were teaching people that real component-level work is dead. I fix phones in my shop every day, and 70% of the time it's a $5 capacitor or a loose connector. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing and felt it misrepresents what we actually do?

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wade7675d ago

Honestly, calling that a repair is like saying I fixed my car by buying a new one.

the_val5d ago

Tbh the car buying thing is a bit much. It's just a repair, not some huge life event. People get way too worked up over word choices.