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The Fall of the Geek Triumphant

Event Interactive 2012
Format Solo
Organizer Danny O'Brien – Special Projects
Speakers
  1. Danny O'Brien – Special Projects
Description In the last twenty years, the geek sub-culture has gone from a minority, outsider affliction to a dominant mainstream force. Companies want to be like Google. Hollywood wants sci-fi and superheroes. Ordinary people want to be dorks *just like you*. Deep in our hearts and late in our caffeine-fueled nights, though, we know how screwed up we are: how dysfunctional our supposedly happy pet-friendly workplaces are, how the success and the attitudes we espouse are one click away from mental and financial collapse. How do we break it to the rest of the world that we're not the droids they're looking for? And how did we go from "just leave us alone" to "just let us run your life"? Danny O'Brien, the man who forced life hacks on the world, repents live on stage, and asks you to do the same in this all-star confessional.
Questions
Answered
  1. What is the 100 year history of geek culture in a five minute slide show?
  2. What are the secret confessions of people you thought were super-efficient, well-balanced ubergeeks?
  3. What have Wikileaks, Ritalin and Wahhabism got in common?
  4. Where did it all go wrong?
  5. How can we fix it?
Level Beginner
Category Work and Happiness
Tags Culture, Geek, lifehacking
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