Beware The Pretty People | TechCrunch
The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked; needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again. People who existed a little apart from society's established hierarchy .…
Beware The Pretty People | TechCrunch Beware The Pretty People Jon Evans 6:00 AM PST · February 28, 2015 The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked; needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again. People who existed a little apart from society’s established hierarchy … and often saw that hierarchy as another machine to be deconstructed and improved. That is no longer the case. Now that technology is the dominant cultural and economic force of our ti
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