NEW YORK - And so in the end they won, the guys with glasses, the first of the class stayed away from all those who do not go out tonight, nor tomorrow nor the day after tomorrow, because the world is all in my bedroom in personal computers, nell'iPad in the cloud, in the cloud that now unites us all in the virtual world of the web.
It took half a century, that word - nerd - appeared for the first time in 1951 right here in America in Newsweek, to go around the world and meaning: turning from a "loser" in "cool". But not just a matter of slang and languages. The latest generation - the "evolution of the nerd," as experts call it - is poised to literally change the world with brand new ones, but peaceful atomic bombs micidialissime calls, for example, Facebook and WikiLeaks.
Take this photo taken in Silicon Valley the other day says it all. There he, Barack Obama, Commander in Chief of the Western world, the president - like it or not - the most seductive on the planet, raising his glass to the table and pays tribute to former nerd and nerd. To his left Steve Jobs, Apple now exhausted the wizard of the disease, and his young heir to the right in the realm of "techies," the king of the web and dell'hitech, that is Mark Zuckerberg.
It only Bill Gates, Microsoft founder came off stage now, the first guy with glasses to conquer the world. And of course, there could be public enemy number, sought all over the planet, the gentleman in the eyes of the U.S. is the bad nerd, the fallen angel: Julian Assange. Are you ready? Revenge of the nerd has just begun.
In a few Oscar night is also steeped in Hollywood that The Social Network says that, in fact, the extraordinary adventure of Zuckerberg and his Facebook. Yet another sign of the times. The director, David Fincher, Fight Club is the same, the film that celebrated rebellion in the nineties the American exit from the physical yuppismo, all muscles and fitness.
The exact opposite, that is, the universe nerd. But who are these nerds and really because we can not do without them? Clear: the nerd hard, so to speak, and others are pure. Those who instead of cartoons made in U.S. hunt for Japanese anime. Those who prefer the old rock noisy experimentation of Radiohead techno-romantic - or the alternative folk of the Decemberists and cultured.
Those who go crazy for fantasy and science fiction, from the Lord of the Rings Blade Runner, but also for the cyborg saga of William Gibson. Those who call the geek in America and instead we would call "freak" from computers and mobile technology is everything for them has never secret.
But this would be so designed as another tribe underground. A separate world that feeds on myths constantly updated: continuous updates, as they say in the language of the web and mobile applications. But today nerd characters who are the Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler take on the big screen in those comedies - see now Just Go With It - which discount (up to date, in fact) the americanone airhead to Cary Grant.
Nerd are the techniques of seduction that countless books and advertising applications: because "it was a tough kid" has become a way to try - and with some success, too. And nerd glasses are fashionable in the '80s who first Elvis Costello raises (by copying from Buddy Holly) and today are the hallmark of 'false nerd ": that is, those who pretend to be fake just because it's geeky image dominant male and macho alternative to the imperative - as in the past would have been wearing long hair and mustache.
Just the appearance of "false" - Jean Baudrillard docet - the sign of the success of the category. But this does not mean that the true nerds are missing. Indeed. There's even those who perceive a genetic origin. In his Natural History of the Nerd (which the U.S. has the best title localistic of American Nerd: The history of my people) Benjamin Nugent goes so far as to emphasize the closeness of the true bearers of the nerd with Aspergers syndrome.
That is one form of autism that would have affected many genes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart usually up to Bill Gates, proud by serving in the category associations of Aspies, as they are affectionately known here. Difficulty in social relationships, interests focused, real distractions: the symptoms are all there.
Before the culture, then, would nature? Here the issue becomes more delicate. But the real question - syndrome or not - is another: how is it possible that these samples are dell'asocialità within a few decades now the champions of the world? When Nugent wrote his story, four years ago, Zuckerberg had yet to begin his adventure that would lead him to make Facebook the club of 600 million humans: a virtual state three times bigger than the U.S..
Above all, it was still a happy hacker and unknown man who, with his invention has revolutionized the world of information: Julian Assange. He too nerdy? When you ask him, Nugent comes on, "Zuckerberg Assange and are both very, very nerdy. In their failure to appear, both as a charismatic leader, but also in the extraordinary fact that their technology has had on the world." But there is a fundamental difference between the two and, for example, Bill Gates.
"Gates was important because it changed the image of the millionaire and was the first to establish itself as a giant nerd. But it would have been able to provoke a political revolution with Windows somewhere in the world? I think not. That was just a product. WikiLeaks and Facebook, however, they did.
"How?" In the past, says Nugent, "the ability of a person of fomenting a revolution was inseparable from his words and his presence. Maybe through the books, as did Karl Marx. O by example, as Mahatma Gandhi taught us. "Zuckerberg and Assange, in their small, are not great speakers on the contrary." Both were limited to creating "only" the technological means with which others have begun a revolution.
Create a machine more important than what you represent: That attitude is a nerd. "What comes from far away." It's the old myth of Frankstein: You create the monster and you can not stop it. "Here the evolution of the nerd . The boy with glasses Peter Parker today to change the world no longer needs to turn into Spiderman - even now, among other celebrated Broadway from semi-nerd Bono.
Yes, the world has already changed thanks to the nerd revolution. Without disturbing the brave boys of the Arab wall, here in the West now as we all talk about them with text messages and emails. "Only they communicated well since the early 80s - Nugent concludes - and we only now we have achieved ".
Yeah, it took half a century to rediscover all kids with glasses. 
It took half a century, that word - nerd - appeared for the first time in 1951 right here in America in Newsweek, to go around the world and meaning: turning from a "loser" in "cool". But not just a matter of slang and languages. The latest generation - the "evolution of the nerd," as experts call it - is poised to literally change the world with brand new ones, but peaceful atomic bombs micidialissime calls, for example, Facebook and WikiLeaks.
Take this photo taken in Silicon Valley the other day says it all. There he, Barack Obama, Commander in Chief of the Western world, the president - like it or not - the most seductive on the planet, raising his glass to the table and pays tribute to former nerd and nerd. To his left Steve Jobs, Apple now exhausted the wizard of the disease, and his young heir to the right in the realm of "techies," the king of the web and dell'hitech, that is Mark Zuckerberg.
It only Bill Gates, Microsoft founder came off stage now, the first guy with glasses to conquer the world. And of course, there could be public enemy number, sought all over the planet, the gentleman in the eyes of the U.S. is the bad nerd, the fallen angel: Julian Assange. Are you ready? Revenge of the nerd has just begun.
In a few Oscar night is also steeped in Hollywood that The Social Network says that, in fact, the extraordinary adventure of Zuckerberg and his Facebook. Yet another sign of the times. The director, David Fincher, Fight Club is the same, the film that celebrated rebellion in the nineties the American exit from the physical yuppismo, all muscles and fitness.
The exact opposite, that is, the universe nerd. But who are these nerds and really because we can not do without them? Clear: the nerd hard, so to speak, and others are pure. Those who instead of cartoons made in U.S. hunt for Japanese anime. Those who prefer the old rock noisy experimentation of Radiohead techno-romantic - or the alternative folk of the Decemberists and cultured.
Those who go crazy for fantasy and science fiction, from the Lord of the Rings Blade Runner, but also for the cyborg saga of William Gibson. Those who call the geek in America and instead we would call "freak" from computers and mobile technology is everything for them has never secret.
But this would be so designed as another tribe underground. A separate world that feeds on myths constantly updated: continuous updates, as they say in the language of the web and mobile applications. But today nerd characters who are the Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler take on the big screen in those comedies - see now Just Go With It - which discount (up to date, in fact) the americanone airhead to Cary Grant.
Nerd are the techniques of seduction that countless books and advertising applications: because "it was a tough kid" has become a way to try - and with some success, too. And nerd glasses are fashionable in the '80s who first Elvis Costello raises (by copying from Buddy Holly) and today are the hallmark of 'false nerd ": that is, those who pretend to be fake just because it's geeky image dominant male and macho alternative to the imperative - as in the past would have been wearing long hair and mustache.
Just the appearance of "false" - Jean Baudrillard docet - the sign of the success of the category. But this does not mean that the true nerds are missing. Indeed. There's even those who perceive a genetic origin. In his Natural History of the Nerd (which the U.S. has the best title localistic of American Nerd: The history of my people) Benjamin Nugent goes so far as to emphasize the closeness of the true bearers of the nerd with Aspergers syndrome.
That is one form of autism that would have affected many genes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart usually up to Bill Gates, proud by serving in the category associations of Aspies, as they are affectionately known here. Difficulty in social relationships, interests focused, real distractions: the symptoms are all there.
Before the culture, then, would nature? Here the issue becomes more delicate. But the real question - syndrome or not - is another: how is it possible that these samples are dell'asocialità within a few decades now the champions of the world? When Nugent wrote his story, four years ago, Zuckerberg had yet to begin his adventure that would lead him to make Facebook the club of 600 million humans: a virtual state three times bigger than the U.S..
Above all, it was still a happy hacker and unknown man who, with his invention has revolutionized the world of information: Julian Assange. He too nerdy? When you ask him, Nugent comes on, "Zuckerberg Assange and are both very, very nerdy. In their failure to appear, both as a charismatic leader, but also in the extraordinary fact that their technology has had on the world." But there is a fundamental difference between the two and, for example, Bill Gates.
"Gates was important because it changed the image of the millionaire and was the first to establish itself as a giant nerd. But it would have been able to provoke a political revolution with Windows somewhere in the world? I think not. That was just a product. WikiLeaks and Facebook, however, they did.
"How?" In the past, says Nugent, "the ability of a person of fomenting a revolution was inseparable from his words and his presence. Maybe through the books, as did Karl Marx. O by example, as Mahatma Gandhi taught us. "Zuckerberg and Assange, in their small, are not great speakers on the contrary." Both were limited to creating "only" the technological means with which others have begun a revolution.
Create a machine more important than what you represent: That attitude is a nerd. "What comes from far away." It's the old myth of Frankstein: You create the monster and you can not stop it. "Here the evolution of the nerd . The boy with glasses Peter Parker today to change the world no longer needs to turn into Spiderman - even now, among other celebrated Broadway from semi-nerd Bono.
Yes, the world has already changed thanks to the nerd revolution. Without disturbing the brave boys of the Arab wall, here in the West now as we all talk about them with text messages and emails. "Only they communicated well since the early 80s - Nugent concludes - and we only now we have achieved ".
Yeah, it took half a century to rediscover all kids with glasses.
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