Geek (or do I mean nerd?) culture is far more interested in where ideas came from than in where they can go.
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. Disagree. Watch a geek play with a VR headset and in minutes they'll be talking about potential applications.
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Passion for minutiae, and the thrill when you learn that it conveys context-dependent superpowers is every nerd's origin story.
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people who naturally see where things can go tend to become artists (regardless of discipline.)
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Scholasticism v. Empiricism
This is part of why programmers sometimes become zealous Austrian-school amateur economists.
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