Nerds

You see nerds in 80's movies, and you start to forget that they really existed. There's a temptation to think of nerds with their aviator glasses and overbites as just another movie shorthand, but no, nerds were very real.

Why don't we have nerds any more? We have socially awkward technology people, but it's not the same. Now that computers are, for the most part, cool. Nerds are gone and unmourned. As far as I know, there's no nerd Burning Man where people go to engage in nerd culture. Does everybody think nerds were a waste of time?

It's not like nerds were people who were only nerds 'cause they couldn't be jocks. Presumably they really liked those glasses, and all the other stuff. But now nobody has the time of day for nerds. It's sad, and it's about time for a nerd revival.