It all sounds very theoretical and far-fetched, but Kahn's ideas are catching on. The Internet is crawling with Web sites devoted to Nerd culture and geek chic. The sites are fun but in general they're just variations on the same joke. It turns out that some people take the notion of geek culture seriously, however. English-Lueck has used the same tools and methods that anthropologists use when studying tribes in the Amazon rain forest or clans in Eskimo territory.
Anthropologists peer into a valley of silicon Keep hacking.