Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine - 2 views
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Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Jan 11"In Japan, the word otaku refers to people who have obsessive, minute interests-especially stuff like anime or videogames. It comes from a term for "someone else's house"-otaku live in their own, enclosed worlds. Or, at least, their lives follow patterns that are well outside the norm. Looking back, we were American otakus. "
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Roland Gesthuizen on 09 Jan 11Interesting to think about how Geek culture has changed over the past three decades.