Largely, this is what I think has happened; the interests of big business and corporations have aligned with the interests of nerds and geeks. Geeks like cool

Largely, this is what I think has happened; the interests of big business and corporations have aligned with the interests of nerds and geeks. Geeks like cool technology because it's interesting .. whereas the other interested (commercial) parties like cool technology because it's enables them to increase their reach, power and profit. Society has become more enamoured with technology because a shift was necessary for commercial enterprise to flourish. In my opinion, the fact that our families all use the technologies we were championing 15 years ago, is a result of commercial might. Therefore, my bet is that the majority of 'alpha geeks' are all working happily for 'the man'. At the end of the day, most people who have a love for learning and technology just want interesting projects to work on - if they can be handsomely rewarded for doing just that, the majority probably wont say no.