The Inheritance of the Geek

What shall the Geek inherit?? If one is stumped by that one, I declare, one hasn't really been keeping awake.

Look around, inhabitant of the Blue planet,---- look to see the prodigious third of the wondrous solar family sinking helplessly into the hands of the Geek. Not that this god-like status of His is a modern development. One gains familiarity with the meddlesome habits of remarkable godfathers of geekiness, the likes of the the DaVincis, the Newtons, the Edisons, the Einsteins the Hawkings, and their tiresome doings shoved down one’s unsuspecting digestive system rather early-on in life. No, the world has never quite been sublimely free from the grubby, tinkering, poking and prodding hands of its curious human products perpetually contriving to thrust everything from a thermometer to a nuclear reactor down its side.


So how would you define the domain of geekiness? I doubt that it has a far greater outreach in the throng of the human society than just a great deal of high school science and the correlated club of perky little I’m-so-clever bespectacled 100 percentilers that we imagine it to be associated with. As a matter of fact, if one observes, it is a fluidly adaptive quality which seeps into the nooks and crannies of the civilization and silently modifies everything from shampoo to airplanes.

Think about this; when was the last time you were flushed with inward gratitude when your hopelessly protesting computer came back good as new? The time your car broke down in the middle of the road and you desperately sought asylum in the garage mechanic? Remember the elation you felt on holding the new smartphone and wondering how the Steve Jobs guy managed to look into your soul? When your heart warmed towards the Page and Brin everytime you alighted upon the very thing you were looking for? Well.....there you have the ingenuity of the world-wide federation of geeks to sigh over, be it your neighbourhood tinkerer or the poker-faced multi-millionaire the world bows down to.


There probably isn’t a force mighty enough to keep the DIYers at bay. Why, one is ready to even bear the indignity of being labelled a ‘dummy’ just to pick up that generous little DIY book to get a fairer idea of the swish new photo editor. Come to think of it, a fairly large population among us advanced primates have a little geek inside of us.....why else would those pieces of non-fiction find pride of place in every shelf?It rears its head at one time or other, craning its neck to take a little peek at the workings in the machine-room that drives our civil society.......or maybe even find a way to speed up that engine!!