>If the scene is sufficiently geeky, it remains a strictly geek thing; a weird hobby, not a subculture. To some degree you may be correct, but tech is unique.

>If the scene is sufficiently geeky, it remains a strictly geek thing; a weird hobby, not a subculture. To some degree you may be correct, but tech is unique. It primarily falls into this category, however in recent times, probably as during the tech boom, the culture is also rightly seen as a strong career path. And the people who spend their lives coding out of pure passion make these things look extremely easy to outsiders - you can't deny that someone who spends 4-8 hours a day coding in their spare time since teenagehood isn't likely to outperform someone who just does this for a living. So there will be a particularly strong pressure to coopt the subculture - but my point is that tech is different, because it isn't a subculture, it's a passion that cannot be simply emulated because in the end code either works or it doesn't.