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CURRENT MEANING Nerd According to WIRED, “As a general group, nerds tend to be highly attentive to and focused on details — an obsessive need to know every last fact about their special interest, regardless of what specifically that is.3” While this article acknowledges the generalization being made a New York Times article claims “We’re All Nerds Now.” In this article, self-proclaimed “nerd”, Wil Wheaton says ““Becoming mainstream is the wrong word; the mainstream is catching up. Tech has become so ubiquitous and seamless in our lives,” he said, “and because tech and personal tech and wearable tech are such a part of our daily existence, we want to know more about them.c
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