Is it just me or do you feel like society has seriously reduced the standards of what it means to be a geek? Is it me or is geekiness fashionable now? Do the cool kids in school sit there and say,
"wow, I'm such a geek!"
lol
I mean back in my day I was a geek if I was watching reruns of StarGate SG-1 on the PC whilst simultaneously trying to learn C and tcl to code a fantastic new bot to work on my IRC channel. Mainly to prevent being in the middle of some weird clan war they had back then.
Now I see kids walk past me saying,
"Omg I'm such a geek. I play video games"
But I'm not slagging these kids off. No, no way. This is good. This is good that technology has moved from the socially awkward to the socially acceptable. Perhaps it's not a good thing when the socially accepted people clash with the awkwards on Minecraft, and end up making a supposedly funny YouTube video about it.
I cry for those people.
But I'm mediocre myself really. I see platforms such as Steemit, and these guys I expect spend months hard coding everything from the bottom level up, and me? I'm just a mere pawn in a beautifully designed front end, and back end social media web based application
Applications like this will really drive us forward into the next generation of geekiness. Pairing a content based reward platform with a cryptocurrency blockchain, a technology that was designed for computer geeks, by computer geeks - will force the world to learn more. To delve into the depths of the unknown. To learn uber levels of geekery.
I expect it will be hard at first, but give it a year or two. I see artists joining here already. People all over will be jumping at the chance to give us a try!
But maybe I'm just wishing.
Only 8 years ago I daren't broadcast my geekery to the world for fear of being cast asunder from my social groups. Now it's completely socially acceptable. I wonder what it's like at school now? Who are the outcasts? In my day it was the geeks and nerds. Who now?
All interesting stuff!
I hope in 10 years from now content is exclusively on the artists side. Websites have to pay through the nose to even have a hope in hell to have anyone's work published. I think Steemit can start that ball rolling. Who knows, huh? :)
