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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7679609" data-attributes="member: 177">The &quot;culture of tech&quot; will by no means stay a constant thing.Why?&nbsp; Well, as tech becomes more and more ubiquitous, it ceases to be different.&nbsp; It will stop being a point over which there's a discontinuity between peoples.&nbsp; It used to be that the tech workplace was geek haven, but as more and more people get involved in producing it, the tech workplace will be come a standard office (where, for example, engineers will spend more time discussing sports than they do traditionally &quot;geeky&quot; things).&nbsp; Tech will slowly cease being a cultural-geek-only place.&nbsp; Being involved in tech will cease to be (is already ceasing to be) an indicator that one is &quot;geeky&quot;, in the cultural sense, as many folks in tech will not otherwise be geeks.A friend of mine was recently talking a bout how he was the sole RPG player he could find in a 50+ people engineering department!&nbsp; I think the current interest in sci-fi and fantasy movies will wane, just as the past had waves of mystery/gumshoe films, and Westerns.&nbsp; Genres rise and fall, folks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7679609, member: 177"] The "culture of tech" will by no means stay a constant thing. Why? Well, as tech becomes more and more ubiquitous, it ceases to be different. It will stop being a point over which there's a discontinuity between peoples. It used to be that the tech workplace was geek haven, but as more and more people get involved in producing it, the tech workplace will be come a standard office (where, for example, engineers will spend more time discussing sports than they do traditionally "geeky" things). Tech will slowly cease being a cultural-geek-only place. Being involved in tech will cease to be (is already ceasing to be) an indicator that one is "geeky", in the cultural sense, as many folks in tech will not otherwise be geeks. A friend of mine was recently talking a bout how he was the sole RPG player he could find in a 50+ people engineering department! I think the current interest in sci-fi and fantasy movies will wane, just as the past had waves of mystery/gumshoe films, and Westerns. Genres rise and fall, folks. [/QUOTE]

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