Perhaps if you take some responsability you might be able to teach your child something useful.

I'm hoping you were trying to be funny, it's sad you got modded insightful.

you're revolting right now!

Maybe in a couple of hundred years we won't need Magic to bootstrap Science, but until then...

Let me explain. You are a USian. They have a vision problem that makes them believe that the whole world is exactly like them.

Extended travel seems to be the only current cure.

FTFY.

Personally, I think that would be the most useful on a homestead. Coupled with a clay printer of course, for precision manufacture of ceramics. So that covers metal, plastic, glass, ceramic.