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And therein lies the problem with a definition whose meaning has been diluted to near meaninglessness. "Geek" doesn't mean the same thing it used to, or even c
by haploid 16y ago
And therein lies the problem with a definition whose meaning has been diluted to near meaninglessness.
"Geek" doesn't mean the same thing it used to, or even close to it. Teenage girls running around calling themselves geeks because they spend a lot of time playing angry birds on their phone is a far cry from the MIT Media Lab.
The same goes for latte-sipping hipsters who can use Garage Band on their MBP, or any other person who uses consumer technology as an end-user, then proceeds to proclaim themselves a geek, or FSM forbid, a hacker.
- Qz 16y agoI don't see dilution of the definition as a problem. Video games used to be geeky. Now everyone plays video games. Everyone is geeky. To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, 'Geeky is Good.' And for the record, many of them consider themselves geeks for legitimately geeky things, not 'playing angry birds on their phone' as you so derisively mention.
- coderdude 16y agoAre you slightly angry at the outside world? Whenever I hear someone ranting about teenage girls and "hipsters" I think "social issues."