I enjoyed reading Jon Katz’s story Geek: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho. ... The story is about two young guys moving out of Idaho, where their skills were under appreciated, to Chicago where things weren’t quite as they expected. Katz spends quite a bit of time corresponding and just generally hanging out with Jesse and Eric. He celebrates both the professional and personal potential of geeks while exploring the downside of communities based on computer skills and on-line communication. ... Jesse and Eric were nineteen years old guys that graduated Middleton High School, which spent most of their time working, using the Internet, and playing computer games. ... Eric was a much more Idaho farm kid rather then the classic geek. ... He traveled to Idaho to meet Eric and Jesse, intending to chronicle their lives. ... The Internet was their tool and means for escape, which allow them to discover a world beyond the one they live in: good paying jobs, higher education and the big city. ... One of the inconsistencies that took place was when Jesse and Eric did not have enough money on their trip out of Idaho. ... The guys didn’t even have enough money to get back to Idaho. ... Their apartment had “piles of dirty laundry, the opened Doritos bags, the empty cans of generic soda pop, two ratty old chairs and a moldering beanbag chair”(Katz, 17), which seems like a quite messy place. Also, there were “Jesse-like computer geeks all over” (Katz, 135) the University of Chicago. ... He mentioned how he “written a series of articles for Slashdot, comparing the Enlightment and the Internet” (Katz, 137).
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