I’m at Friends of O’Reilly, the geeks-in-tents get-together that’s just too much fun. Since I’m on east coast time, I was up at 4:30 and came to the largish room where people go for focused computing time. Now at 9:30 there are about 20 stellar geeks sitting around tables arranged into a U, each staring into her/his laptop, now and then snorting in laughter and drawing their neighbors’ attention to yet some new wonder on the Web.

From the faces each two feet from the next but focused on the glowing screens, it’d be easy to mistake this for anti-social behavior. In fact, it’s sociality once again escaping from the fascination of loneliness, as always has been the case.

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