GEEK GIRLS : FOLLOW YOUR CALLING
“No one will really be free until nerd persecution ends.” Patrick Henry it’s not. But at that moment, the character Gilbert Lowell in Revenge of the Nerds anticipates technology’s pervasive influence on daily lives around the world. From Instagram updates to mobile phone banking, all kinds of people—from college students to Nairobi shopkeepers—depend on technology for all kinds of activities. It’s difficult to imagine a world without the devices we depend on or the systems, like supersized passenger jets, we often take for granted. The nerds are triumphant. Geeks rule.
But while that’s a convenient meme and recognizable identity, it wasn’t always that way. For example, in 1984, when Gilbert Lowell made his clarion ...
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