Very true. As a boy, I would build models, work on my stamp collection, listen to police scanners or tackle thousand plus piece jigsaw puzzles with my sister. As a young adult, I got into electronics and short wave radio. I would spend countless hours dx'ing with my Grundig and picking up stations from around the world.
All of that has been mostly lost in the computer age.
After my brother got a do-it-yourself AM transistor radio kit I wanted to build a mercury spaceship, dad said slow down.