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The loss of geek identity | Guillaume Regouby | TEDxLimoges


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good evening my good public limoges I

a question for you tonight and she

is important

you are rather star wars or star

trek

ok ok ok well here we are in

space ships the space opera

ok ok if you have to give a picture

a good mentor rather gandalf or

rather dumbledore

we are in heroic fantasy we are a

little in all of that and you’ll notice when

I ask you these questions I do not ask you

not even ask is what are you

geek or not I already speak of the principle

that you are a little bit

while you may not have it

already claimed we are drowned in

this geek culture you saw the

movies coming out right now we are

drowned superhero francis the circle

thank you thank you ca this type of image that little

vexed if as unity if community of

geeks at the same time i will leave you

deciphering that can make

heated debates with family or with

friends while we speak no religion

nor politics you imagine the geek subject

culture or religion you have four

hours we are exactly in there and

it’s a huge budget savings

monumental then people have tried

to define what is a geek and they

have tried to give a definition

they thought

it’s still crazy to try to

define and put in boxes of

people who by definition are trying to

not be in a box

but we’re here so we’re going

not necessarily linger on the

definition of the geek but we can

to be more interested in a certain

state of mind

but still things that stand out

passion the geek goes further than a

fan

he is passionate about his subject what

they are and often we will say yes

it’s related to computer science these two

new technologies at the same time

nowadays everything is a bit related to

IT new technologies

so it’s still reducer

personally I know a big fan

debit

‘I know everything’s where it has

exclusives he has the vinyls they

buy everything he knows all the

anecdotes

it’s a form of geek that does not shock

not so we will be interested a little

this culture and we will do a little

of history together we will talk about

Super hero

the first superhero who really

been super heroes as we hear

it’s superman 1938

first release of superman one is

in the United States we are on the eve of

the second world war and it takes

create champions and it’s going fast

follow through 39 batman 40 flash green

lantern 41 wonder woman it’s funny

it’s all the movies that are in the process

to go out today and who will be going out

still ok so we’re a little bit in the

in flight by the imaginary to

create champions and we surrender

realize that the imagination works well

then we will go further we will go

further and we will create universes

whole but he can dive in

1934 the hobbit 1951 the lord of the

rings and here we start to touch

communities very very very very

very fans who are able to you

make incredible debates about a

point of detail in the book that

could redo plots of

potting theory and that’s ok that’s it

works well 51

isaac asimov foundation one mixes a

whole universe in which one can get

to dive and the space opera

we are in the space conquest on

conquer the galaxies then that’s

there we go on we link star trek

we follow star wars 77

so we have communities of people

who are passionate who find themselves

and that they want to go always more

immersive they want to interact with this

universe seventies ten 80s

role plays 70 dungeons and dragons

we continue we have the card games to

to play

magic 93 I coast and

Pokemon May

we’re still there, we’re here

an imaginary universe and we interact

with him the year begins to touch the

manga period 80 90 we knew him

in France 180 8 thanks to club dorothée

memorable fights with my mother

because I had to finish my

dragon ball z episode before going

at school of course the knights of the

zodiac nicky larson and there he goes

produce a rocker we say yeah he

there is an underlying sougeal culture

there is the Franco-Belgian comics and the dc

comics and then there are mangas

yes but 99 matrix beyond the movie with

the trilogy with all its deep meaning

we cross something is that

it’s a very very very oriented film

for the geeks the protagonist is a

computer developer not coming out

many who are convinced that there is

an imaginary world as and when

of the trilogy lille turns into

hero it turns out that the world

imaginary is actually the real world

which was created by the robots there

wins the girl’s heart and he saves

the world

not bad his own 2001 2001 it’s not

badly it’s the lord of the rings and there

it’s going to happen something pretty

interesting because lord of

rings there is a whole new

geek community that happens who

are interested in this universe that

had never read the books and he

arrive say to each other yeah that’s great

senate does it all right yes no

talking to your father about hurried

his uncle and aunt

they may have him there already 50

years art and there we touch a side

cultural because it becomes inter

generational and we have two the

table meal table

family we can exchange it’s nice gold

you will have understood me I arrived

a little bit in this period a

dragon ball in teen these games

of magic playing cards

it made me meet a lot of

world

I sympathized a lot and after

network games i come pc pretty late

16 years old

some facilities I find myself in

teams I had the opportunity to do

a lot of national not bad

of international and I lived

a few years I’m not even going

dwell on it

brought me fantastic things

a lot of relationships the spirit of

competition the mind the team and a

great fighting spirit

because when you talk to

a community of geeks and you

are on the front of the stage

the returns are violent in good as

in bad it is necessary to hang on and behind

surprisingly sam even served as

as a company manager

already because I ‘m going up

the box as a team leader with my

wife so captain of equipped all

in the same boat we go and I

spent hiring interviews or

thrown on the last line of the cv tu

do video games tell me you do

what because here we hit suddenly

the imagination of the person is good

to determine a profile except its

raw technical skills of blows

missed rather support you are rather

attacking defenders you are rather

strategist and organizes things that’s

nice that means that person

in front of me on his free time

like to do that that’s what it is

that’s what he wants to become

it’s pretty interesting then when we

go around a little bit of all this and

well we won

you doubted it was a culture

underlying is now we are a

dominant culture

we won if you have a doubt

the game industry weighs heavier than

the film and music industry

it’s an economy

incredible the last competitions

world fills the seoul stadium

60000 people for three days

non-stop to broadcast in 18 languages

with professional commentators 8

million prizes for the winners

the two million people who

watch the matches live it’s not

worse than the football economy and so

we won but we have a problem we

was not ready you do not want it

it was necessarily our identity

to be geek we were in green and against

all

15 years ago it was something to be geek

thing he had to affirm he had to

suffering family pressure alf was going

to say to each other but it’s not like that that you

find a job doing studies

stop playing late at night

like what it leads to everything but it

still creates interest in the

geek culture whatever it is there

had to read a lot needed to get

to inform a lot had to communicate

many nowadays culture

geek is still served on a

tray

it is page click away

wikipedia and go a little bit to

cinema

so we are very proud of myself

very proud to share that

kids that my friends a lot more

freely

but at the same time there is something

who was lost what was lost

and it is this fighting spirit that has

been lost

it was this side a little green

and against all without saying that we are

marginals normally the geek at this

culture of why not because it is

against authority but because he’s going

constantly asked the question but

why this is so because he is looking for

the explanation and it’s perceived as a

side a bit marginal this not the case one

lost it’s a shame we have when

even glee emblems that one of our

days in the world changing the world

think about bill gates microsoft

mark zuckerberg facebook and us days

elon muscles a good champion tesla space

x

so these people right now

they change the world

so I think we’ll get to

saturation one is inundated with the

geek culture the blockbusters on the

superhero he already has twenty two

programmed until 2022 and eight more

pending depending on whether there is success or

we will not overdose

so suddenly this geek culture that we

has worn proudly is in the process of

to gradually overdose and I

think that in 2025

well we will be more of a culture on

will be a fashion it was fashionable and she has

past

I am a geek 10 to 15 years old I am

do not necessarily recognize in the dikes

of now even if I have nothing against

I think I would find myself in

geeks in 15 years we started to

change the world

some continue to do it on

will continue to do it in 15 years I

do not know what will become of the world in

15 or 20 years we will continue to

change and one day maybe we’ll

save

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