The Gulf between the Geek and the Users

Image by Francis Storr via Flickr

Like many of you, I spend a portion of each day pouring over RSS feeds, blogs and pod casts to get my daily tech and news fix.  Tech is a passion for me, and there is always something new and interesting to read and learn.  And I guess it is always cool to be the only guy in the room that knows about the latest Apple product, or the sales figures on the popular Apps stores, right?

OK, yes it does sound a little pathetic if you put it that way, that is why most of us have blogs, twitter accounts, and other ways to express geeky ways without too much ridicule.  If only this stuff was more interesting to the general public.  The problem is that it is not.  Despite the end user being more technologically savvy, that has not translated into them being interested in the technology they use.  I guess the good thing is that those of us in the service industry will always have a place, but the issue here is that the users will now be the driving force behind the future of technology, and if we can't pack the user base out with the savvy geeks, then the future is going to be heading in the direction of Facebook, Apple and Nintendo.

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