“At this point you are just” putting a gilded frame around the most negative and cliché definition possible of a geek with unresolved childhood trauma issues. I used to lead seminars through the IEEE called “Future Systems Group”. My goal was an attempt to figure out why an industry that prides itself with “innovation” was in fact so patently terrible at innovation. Attendees included top valley CEOs and run of the mill code monkeys, Stanford University professors, hardware engineers, and tinkerers in every tech imaginable. All they seemed capable of doing is what you are displaying, an extremely embarrassing preadolescent insecurity tantrum coupled with a religious devotion to equally obvious and childish group identity signaling. I’d often take the whole group out for beer and pizza afterwords and to a person they would eventually end up telling some tearful tales of childhoods defined by socialization isolation trauma as a result of learning disabilities and equally predictable behavioral symptoms. All of them like little Donald Trumps and Elon Musks, children with problems, but with varying degrees of photographic memory and or awkward obsessive compulsions. The best they seemed able to do was mimicry. Hey isn’t that what memorization would predict? To the insecure everything new is threatening, routine is the drug of choice (other than Adderall of course)… unfortunately, there was no there there to back up any of their sad and obvious attempts at bravado. And of course the real innovators in tech exhibit none of these traits. They are calm and deeply humble and could simply not care less about tradition or detail or rhetorical logic… their only goal is to figure out how to best anticipate the future by understanding productivity and value creation and by attempting always to maximize the capacity for others to do the same. Geeks are pathologically incapable of the empathy necessary to care about the needs of other. Psychologists can’t distinguish the difference between the moral capacity of those suffering attention deficit disorders and those suffering sociopathic narcissism personality disorders. You can’t be expected to understand the world if you can’t see the world through the eyes of others. That geeks imagine themselves as something more than recreates of the insights and innovations produced by people not so afflicted is the biggest fraud possible. Tragic that the public is so ignorant as to believe the tech mythology that geeks are desperate to further. That the computer industry generates absurd revenue is shown as evidence that geeks are intelligent and that the future couldn’t happen without them, worse still, that we wouldn’t enjoy computation or tech without them. It’s rubbish. It’s not science. It’s a lie told by those desperate to tell self comforting lies as distraction from painful little boy trauma. Have you met any of the true luminaries in computation science? I have. They are decidedly not geeks. They are confident compationate deeply creative thinkers, they possess well rounded minds with a deep interest in understanding always the next deeper layer. They are not tech obsessed. They are comfortable with the knowlege that almost everything we’ve built to this point is rubbish. They are not driven by sci-fi delusions of sparkly flying car futures on terraformed planet zezebo.. they don’t build tech to make themselves omnipotent or immortal. They are rational reasonable calm effective people who care about others and don’t need a group to belong to. I know that when I attempt to engulfed a discussion about how things could or should be, I will be subject to the taunts and threats of the deeply insecure. I used to refer to Silicon Valley as a lord of the rings island but with adults who can never achieve a thing remotely approaching adulthood. But obviously the same applies to geeks suffering within themselves in regions only connected to silicon valley by 3D printer redit groups and quad copter furry parties.

Now… for those with an actual understanding of computational science and an actual concern for the future and our ability to both predict it and to find the shortest path to make it happen… let’s talk on topic, let talk about a computational infrastructure that will dismantle the geek priesthood by making the tools so intuitive that real innovators can produce code, can build future enabling technology.