One characteristic of a nerd was that they spent the dominant share of their time immersed in media, detached from the world of their immediate surroundings. T

One characteristic of a nerd was that they spent the dominant share of their time immersed in media, detached from the world of their immediate surroundings. There's nothing novel about that in the age of smartphones. The afflictions of the socially isolated, overstimulated, detached and anxious nerd have gone mainstream.