I’m going to keep this brief.
Several years ago Bill Gates said something like ‘be careful how you treat geeks, you may end up working for one’ (my girlfriend added ‘or married to one’).
How true this is. It seems that even without realising, more and more people are becoming ‘geeks’. Not necessarily in the classic sense of the word, but let me put it to you this way: how may people do you know that DON’T have a computer, how many people do you know that DON’T have an email address or mobile phone.
More and more people are finding technology interesting and fun. You get people reading such magazines as stuff and SFX, taking an interest in the later mobile phone and the latest TV series. Who would have thought that ‘Lost’ a Sci-Fi would have the attention of so many ‘normal’ people.
It really excites me that people seem to be finally embracing the advantages of science and technology, and that they are slowly becoming part of everyday life (blog is now almost an everyday term). I look forward to the advances we can make in the future.
