I'm optimistic for several reasons: 1) Less need for IT support for family and friends; 2) I'm well-served with the computers I assemble and purchase, and eve

I'm optimistic for several reasons: 1) Less need for IT support for family and friends; 2) I'm well-served with the computers I assemble and purchase, and even if mainstream operating systems continue their slide towards not serving my needs well (from my vantage point looking at OS X Lion and Windows 8), I am confident that there will be solutions out there, possibly increasingly exemplified by Linux, that facilitate web development and mundane user empowerment; 3) The web has become the democratic platform for publishing interactive content to the masses, which no vendor would dare attempt to exert control over. Now, the real question is who's going to capitalize on this amusingly-phrased headline and come out with the Angry Nerds mobile game, where you launch a variety of nerds at iPads hidden in the temporary safety of their elaborate Apple Stores? Let's see, there's the fat, bearded nerd, the pale, skinny, tall one, the kid with glasses, the token girl nerd with freckles and glasses, and the $1.99 in-game purchase Darth Vader helmet nerd. [Edit] Looks like I wasn't the first one to think along these lines: http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds [/Edit]