Is the Maker Movement Making It Cool For Kids To Be Nerds?

blackbearnh writes "For many adults into technology, childhood was an alienating experience, pigeon-holed as a nerd and relegated to the A/V, Computer or Gaming club in high school. But according to a Christian Science Monitor article that looks at young Makers, the next generation of tech geeks are social and are gaining increasing support from corporate America. Radio Shack is stocking Arduinos, Autodesk bought Instructables, and teens are flocking to local Hackerspaces to learn how to create their own gear. Wired GeekDad David Giancaspro thinks the desire to create things is natural. 'As we've moved further and further away from that, towards what people call "knowledge work," as opposed to producing something physical, that urge is starting to come back,' he says."

Re:Pigeonholed?

[Anonymous Coward]

While I am a card carrying nerd

Oh? Which cards, Magic The Gathering?

Re:Pigeonholed?

[ksd1337]

Nah, punch cards.

This quote may be relevant.

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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. -Benjamin Franklin