This is nothing more than revenge of the non-nerds. The younger generation of technologists tend to have much better social skills than those of us "olds" who

This is nothing more than revenge of the non-nerds. The younger generation of technologists tend to have much better social skills than those of us "olds" who grew up on BBSes and the purple 8086 book. Writing software is now cool, so the newer cadre of developers are the same mental archetype that stuffed us into lockers for not being normal. They just do different things than play football now. They intend to punish us for the crime of not having been properly socialized by our peers.