[A_Duck]

Programmable logic toys like this formed the way I see the world — a system of states, conditional flow between states and the chance to design, understand and debug the system.

I had Lego Mindstorms and Gen X had Logo/Turtle.

With AI perhaps programmable logic will go the way of toy steam engines and crystal radios, and with it the worldview of those who grew up seeing the world as logic flows

[pphysch]

To be clear, the SMART brick is not much of a "programmable logic toy", topping out at "if near X, play U sound".

Your last paragraph is spot on though.