Much of the media over the past 30 or so years envisions your textbook nerd as the awkward, poorly dressed, social outcast with very little to add to the social gene pool. I think as a sort of societal karma, many of those stereotyped nerds have make their ranks into popular society to reinvent the image of the nerd, geek, and dork. Although, there’s still that guy in your local high school that’s a DM on the weekends and is deep in though over his next D&D party, probably considering LARPing even. Yes, creepy, I know.
But as for me, and a growing number of childhood nerds, we’ve seen the light of popular society, and luckily we’re on the bleeding edge. Many of us laugh from behind hour desks as network admins and IT professionals. “You forgot your password, and your printer won’t print?! OH NOES! Whatever shall you do? I’ll be there in an hour.”
We’re a lucky group now that knows our way around all sorts of gadgets and electronics, but now we’re being outpaced by a new generation even more well versed in modern technology. Such is the life cycle of us nerds, i mean, come on, we have a new iPod ever other year, and my year old laptop is nearly without use.
