[CORRECTED] IT geeks will rule the world. Soon

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

During random discussion it finally occured to me: Nerds & Geeks IT geeks/enthusiasts will rule the world in about the next 20 years. In my opinion, it is practically inevitable.

It is now pretty clear few basic technologies will be building blocks of the future and among them the 2 we already know:
- Internet: It has already changed the world. In the next 10-20 years practically EVERYTHING will be done using Internet to a some degree (if it already isn't ?). People won't know how to live without it. Internet is created & run by IT geeks.
- Bitcoin: It its highly probable that it will rewrite the whole financial system from the scratch, and with it - whole economy. And economy rules everything: from people, through companies to whole countries. Bitcoin is also run by IT geeks.

Some facts:
- Huge amount of financial wealth is already owned by IT enthusiasts because of new IT companies such as Google and Facebook.
- Because the IT enthusiasts rule the internet, they influence practically everybody's opinion
- The IT enthusiasts (including early adopters) will [probably] accumulate almost inconceivable amount of wealth because of Bitcoin. And people with the most wealth will rule
- The old people don't understand the new world and won't invest so much in new technologies (just look at Bloomberg/Fox Buisness interviews), so they will be gradually replaced by nerds on all positions of power

Also everybody should be actually quite happy with nerds as their new ruling elite. Reasons:
- Nerds IT geeks are smart.
- Nerds IT geeks are more logical than other people, so are less prone to manipulation
- Nerds IT geeks don't lust money as much as most other people (they care about gadgets and IT stuff instead).
- Nerds IT geeks don't lust power as much as most other people (they care about doing cool things with IT stuff instead). Which implies greater resistance to corruption.
- Nerds IT geeks actually know how to build, run & test complex systems, so if they were to rule globally, that would improve the world a lot (just look what the Internet has done already, and much much more can be achieved)

So if you are not an IT geek, you should welcome your new geeky overlords.

If you are an IT geek, you should prepare for the inevitable and try to be a good ruler for your future underlings.

I know all of this may sound funny, but I am actually quite serious.

[ChinaCoin]

How thought-provoking 

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

How thought-provoking  

Please elaborate ?

[BitcoinBarrel]

How can a small box of candies rule the world?

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

How can a small box of candies rule the world?

I don't know, ask them.

[Welsh]

How can a small box of candies rule the world?

Haha, very good.

But back to the subject, I do believe they have the potential to 'rule the world' but as a geek, I wouldn't want to rule the world, to much responsibility, to much laws, too much wars.
Saying that, I would like to create my own island and community, so I guess I have mixed opinions lol.

[freedomno1]

Well just as long as we don't build our maker any time soon
Hal9000
Mean
Exhibit A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0

[2_Thumbs_Up]

How can a small box of candies rule the world?

Haha, very good.

But back to the subject, I do believe they have the potential to 'rule the world' but as a geek, I wouldn't want to rule the world, to much responsibility, to much laws, too much wars.
Saying that, I would like to create my own island and community, so I guess I have mixed opinions lol.

Just program a Sim City World like interface for your ruling. That way it will just seem like a video game rather than world ruling.

[nebulus]

Don't they already?

[greyhawk]

Here's something to think about. If you rule the world and have everyone shot that bullied you in school, are you still a nerd? Or have YOU become the bully instead?

[freedomno1]

Here's something to think about. If you rule the world and have everyone shot that bullied you in school, are you still a nerd? Or have YOU become the bully instead?

Mmm 5 levels below Stalin 4 levels below hitler 3 levels below apartheid 2 levels below exterminator 1 level below terminator == Mujahideen or Dark Hero

[crazy_rabbit]

Nerds grow up to be old stodgey white men with little compassion for new technology, young people or liberal society. They already rule the world.

True story.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

Nerds grow up to be old stodgey white men with little compassion for new technology, young people or liberal society. They already rule the world.
True story.

Source ?

[evolve]

I know all of this may sound funny, but I am actually quite serious.

Actually it sounds kind of sad, its almost like you are trying to justify your lack of social skills.

It's like back in high school when people would say the same type of thing, like: "in 20 years the nerds will be the jock's bosses" or "the popular kids now will be pumping gas and the nerds will all be rich".

The problem is, that isn't even remotely true, its wish-fulfillment fantasy.

[greyhawk]

Nerds grow up to be old stodgey white men with little compassion for new technology, young people or liberal society. They already rule the world.
True story.

Source ?

History.

Look at this nerd boy.



Who's he?




Or this one:




That's him:





And of course there's always him:



But I think you know who that is.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

I know all of this may sound funny, but I am actually quite serious.

Actually it sounds kind of sad, its almost like you are trying to justify your lack of social skills.

It's like back in high school when people would say the same type of thing, like: "in 20 years the nerds will be the jock's bosses" or "the popular kids now will be pumping gas and the nerds will all be rich".

The problem is, that isn't even remotely true, its wish-fulfillment fantasy.

You don't know anything about me. Don't assume anything.
Many people who meet me on daily basis think they know me, yet they don't.

The above has nothing to do with any fantasy. I'm just stating the inevitable. If Bitcoin will rule the world, so will geeks.
Just look at how much rise of the Internet has raised the geek social status. Bitcoin will increase it 10-fold or 100-fold.

Geeks will be the new high-standard which everybody will aspire to.

I am not actually producing anything so revolutionary here. Geeks are among the wealthiest people of the world. In my country, geeks are the people who earn the most money already. This is already happening

[greyhawk]

Almost forgot.

This pretty little nerdy lesbian gamer girl?




Played too much Total War and became him:

[herzmeister]

Al Bielek confirms  (12:23 ff)

[Elwar]

Kinda like how the dotcom boom made geeks all the most powerful people?

Nerds & Geeks seem to be ok with being ruled at the point of a gun. People who are not very smart but are charismatic are the ones in control of those guns.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

Nerds & Geeks seem to be ok with being ruled at the point of a gun. People who are not very smart but are charismatic are the ones in control of those guns.

Well, history is full of surprises.