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From Slashdot -- John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture --

Famous writer and minor television personality John Hodgman posits the end of the culture of Jockdom in favor of a cultural reverence for engineers, scientists and Slashdot readers:

"Jockdom is very noble.  It's not deliberative.  It's certainly the best way to win wars.  It's the best way to motivate teams of people to fulfill a goal - not just war, but getting things done.  The most important way to motivate a factory floor.  But as you know, we're not as much of a manufacturing society as we were before.  China and other big industrial nations are rewarding their nerds and technicians rather than creating a culture that makes fun of them - it would be wise for us to embrace the book-smart as much as our culture has traditionally embraced the street-smart, the jock-smart.  I'm not saying nerds must have their revenge; I'm just saying the time for wedgies is at an end."