Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical (ISNT)
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/citation/wc980930.htm
If you'd happened across Jon Katz's columns on Geek Force in
recent editions of Hotwired, you'd likely have read pronouncements like the
following:
The idea of geek pride was . . . stirring,
ascending. The rise of the geeks has an epic feeling.
As Katz describes it, geeks are nerds plus modems; they have
the nerd's affinity for technology plus a wired sociability nerds lack. The
Internet is their meeting ground, and in the age of the Internet geekdom is
groovy. Outsiders for so long, geeks now "bristle with attitude."
Katz's insight is good so far as it goes but Katz is so concerned with the
social and political ramifications of geekdom that he fails to consider any
possible neurological underpinnings.
