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TECHNO NERDS AND SOCIETY
Technology is constantly changing, and it is changing us as well. ... It has also led to what is called techno nerdism. ... Proliferation of techno nerdism has led to coming up of new culture that could be called as ．The nerd culture・. ... Nerds these days are becoming cool. Nerds now grace covers of many tech-magazines. ...
WHAT HAS LEAD TO TECHNO NERDISM
(1) EXCESS BREEDING OVER TECHNOLOGIES: Computers these days are no more than a normal household entity. ... Continuous breeding over such applications is changing them in to knowledgeable nerds. ... This generation is growing with modern computing techniques and more mature applications leading to a surprising level of technological knowledge and thus giving birth to nerds.
(2) BEHAVIOUR BY THE PEERS
Nerds are made as well as born. ... All nerds are cut off from the social world to some degree, so if they cant perceive social cues well enough to master them, they master whatever they can. Many fall back on logic, leading to the stereotype of cold, emotionless nerds.
LIVING STYLE AND ACTIVITIES
Techno nerds spend most of their time in programming, playing games, Internet surfing and communicating with others. Nerds always keep mingling with technology and keep on hacking what ever come across them. Going on a night out to solve some technical problem is very common in a techno nerd・s life. Techno nerds and socially inept and don・t prefer talking to people. Warm, friendly, amusing, genuinely fun-to-be-with people are unlikely to be nerds. Socially awkward people with an unnatural interest in science or math are likely to be nerds. ... Science fiction conventions are full of nerds who recite lists of Star Trek episode titles and plots. Nerds shun personal contact and prefer their own company, or the company of other nerds with similar obsessions. Nerds communicate by emails full of sarcasm, nerd-jokes, jargon and acronyms. ...
COMPUTER TALKS
Nerds like computer talks. Discussing about computer games, evaluating hardware and non-game software products, classroom talks on reading computer magazines, costs of products and where to buy them are some of the things techno nerds are fond of. For this generation of techno nerds tech talk is similar to talking about toys or music.
Approximate Word count = 1822
Approximate Pages = 7.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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