3. “Regular” folk have become more like geeks without even noticing
It used to be that spending so much time inside to tinker with some gadgets or work/play on the computer earned you stern remarks from your parents or ridicule from your peers. Fast forward about a decade and those same parents can’t get off of Facebook, and those peers are social media addicts.
So who’s spending too much time on computers now? Funny stuff.
It’s like the geeks have for so long quietly been working on this devious machine that then spread across the globe and seduced everyone from your regular teengirl to your grandpa. And now it’s not just geeks who can’t get enough of technology, it is everyone.
Mission accomplished I guess.
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2PartsAnalog
I never thought that we would be cool. The world s changing!
Murray Snudge
Just because geeks are extremely useful does not make them cool – case not proved.
Karl
IT has such a conceit that they are THE tech and nerds. Sorry. There were tech nerds when punch cards were developed for looms. I am Technical Support for my company. The face that I am an Oracle DBA, programmer, and computer power user has nothing to do with the fact that my company makes high purity chemicals and that is what I am supporting. And it’s a whole lot easier to teach computers to a chemist than chemistry to a computer nerd.
Based on the history I know, the generation born in the late 80’s and 90’s is so isolated that, despite the “liberating” force of the internet, they are re-inventing everything around them. Comicon? There have been fan-run science fiction conventions since the ’40s, possibly earlier. Search for WorldCon. Cosplay? Those were hall costumes, part of the masquerade. Chemists and materials science nerds made the basic building blocks of that silicon you use as the foundation of your chips. Sorry, but you can’t claim the exclusive title of nerds.
SEAbeliever
The article isn’t saying that people are claiming to have started all of this. It is stating that the IT crowd has created the necessary spark to ignite the enormous popularity of the “tech and nerds”. It has all been said or done before, regardless of whether or not we are aware of it.