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[[File:Bill Gates in Poland cropped.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bill Gates]], founder of [[Microsoft]], is a famous tech geek.<ref name=NaG/>]]

The term '''tech geek''' refers to high wage-earning employees typically of large technology [[corporations]] like [[Google]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], but it can also refer to tech workers at [[start-ups]].

A '''tech geek''' is a gifted but socially awkward person whose interest and proficiency is with [[technology]], especially computers. Such people were stigmatized but are now viewed more positively because their expertise may make them successful in business and their competence makes them useful to others by providing technical advice and assistance.<ref name=NaG>{{citation |url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ720371.pdf |title=Nerds and Geeks: Society’s Evolving Stereotypes of Our Students With Gifts and Talents |author=Tracey Cross |pages=26-27 |journal=Gifted Child Today |year=2005 |volume=Vol. 28 |number=no. 4|quote="tech geek" is a common phrase used to describe someone whose passion for technology has made him or her a computer expert}}</ref>

==References==

Tech geek is often used in the pejorative to suggest:

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* elitism

* selfishness

* being out of touch

* disingenuousness

* lacking compassion for other human beings.

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==Media coverage==

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Attitudes of tech geeks have become a subject of public debate, which typically tech geeks themselves wish to prevent or discourage. Obnoxious narcissistic exhibitionism by tech geeks, especially the founders of start-ups have been prominent in the media.

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==Influence of gaming culture==

It has been theorized that gaming culture has led to newfound outbreaks of [[narcissistic personality disorder]] (NPD) among people who strongly associate with technology such as tech geeks. However not all tech geeks are gamers.

==Influence of dot com bubble==

Many in the high tech industry agree that before the [[dot com bubble]], technology professionals were largely harmless docile men, and that the bubble pulled in many with more abrasive personalities as well as crass people for whom "greed is good".

==External links==

* [http://chris.pirillo.com/tech-elitism-sucks/ Tech elitism súcks]

* [http://www.kevware.com/geek/?p=305 A Brief Encounter With Poverty In San Francisco]