I'm surprised by the article really. For decades geeks have been mocked and ridiculed in society and the media. Fast forward to this last decade the wider world understands geeks and the geeks' work has made lives better (in some ways) for a lot of people. And now they are the criminals?
There isn't a god-like status, the internet and blogs are built by nerds so yes they will have their praise there, much as you will see farmers being praised in Africa where i'm from. Geeks aren't even called geeks because 1. they are far apart 2. no one even understands what we do in the first place. We all almost know each other because there's so few of us
Of course we need farmers, we need doctors, ventriloquists: we need all sorts of trades but when you find a different calling don't make yourself feel better by ridiculing other people's careers.
Or maybe, just maybe, because tech is the hype where you are and in your media you feel other trades are being neglected. Whether that's true or not for WHERE YOU LIVE i don't know. I do understand your frustration with the code.org campaign though, which makes it seem like kids won't get identity documents because they can't code (lol). But for the rest of the world outside the valley? We actually need more coders.
There isn't a god-like status, the internet and blogs are built by nerds so yes they will have their praise there, much as you will see farmers being praised in Africa where i'm from. Geeks aren't even called geeks because 1. they are far apart 2. no one even understands what we do in the first place. We all almost know each other because there's so few of us
Of course we need farmers, we need doctors, ventriloquists: we need all sorts of trades but when you find a different calling don't make yourself feel better by ridiculing other people's careers.
Or maybe, just maybe, because tech is the hype where you are and in your media you feel other trades are being neglected. Whether that's true or not for WHERE YOU LIVE i don't know. I do understand your frustration with the code.org campaign though, which makes it seem like kids won't get identity documents because they can't code (lol). But for the rest of the world outside the valley? We actually need more coders.