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MP3 audio transcript of a interview with Tim O'Reilly talking about Alpha Geeks, who make things that aren't available, and as a result, make them available to everybody.
So often, signs of the future are all around us, but it isn't until much later that most of the world realizes their significance. Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing that future live in a world of their own. They see and act on premises that are not yet apparent to others.LinkIn the computer industry, these are the folks I affectionately call "the alpha geeks", the hackers who have such mastery of their tools that they "roll their own" when existing products don't give them what they need.