You are completely dead-on with this assessment. For me, and I suspect for a lot of people, "tech" was a place that we could go during our childhoods where peo

You are completely dead-on with this assessment. For me, and I suspect for a lot of people, "tech" was a place that we could go during our childhoods where people would just leave us alone. If I was sitting in my room trying to figure out some bizarre IRQ conflict between my sound card and my wireless card, nobody was standing there making fun of me for not being able to run as fast as them, or not being able to do any pushups. "We judge people based on what they say and thing, not what they look like, and you call us criminals." I think that's why a lot of kids turned to tech. Well the same thing is happening now in the workplace. If we just shut up and sit in our cubes, nobody will bother us. Standing up to $boss means that we might be embarrassed.