The geeks inheirit the earth and your HDTV setup, too

Good piece on 60 Minutes last night. Nominally, it was about the “Geek Squad,” an interesting story in itself. (Started by one guy, eventually bought out by Circuit City Best Buy. Also- why they wear those outfits.) But the excellent reporter Steve Kroft took the story a step beyond, to examine how computers are taking over our lives – and why they are so damned confusing. Best bit: Northwestern professor Dr. Donald Norman, who helped set HDTV’s technological standards, had to hire a geek to set up his own HDTV. “Someone complained to me, ‘You’d need a degree, an engineering degree from MIT, to work this damn thing’…Well, I have an engineering degree from MIT. And I couldn’t work it.” (Video is on story’s page.)