Anyone else just catch Don Norman on 60 minutes? The episode was about the “Revenge of the Geeks”. Essentially, they were saying that our lives are increasingly more electronic, and those electronic devices are increasingly more complex. As long as devices are complex, and the average individual can’t figure them out, geeks have work. With something new coming out every 2 months, geeks have job stability and the flexibility to learn new technologies. This means that they rule the world (at least from the perspective of 60 minutes). In response to that comment from the reporter, one featured geek said “Geeks might inherit the world, but they have no intention of ruling it”.

I only saw Norman for a short bit. He talked about a person that complained and said only an engineer from MIT could figure out the device. He replied that he an engineer from MIT and had no idea how to work that thing. He also introduced scope creep as the reason why most products are so complicated.

He talks about being called an uber geek here.