Geeks and Artboys

This diary entry by William Gibson was all over the place. I assume that anyone in the multimedia/virtual reality field would understand his abundance of references to others in the field, I certainly was lost. Maybe I am missing something, though I have read this piece twice now. To me, the article is simply about the vague distinction between "artboys" and "geeks". And I know that the title of this article implies this, though it really is hard to ascertain this by reading the article. The piece to me seems to be an exploration of this mans (as well as technologies') past through the lens of "geeK" turned "artboy". As Gibson alludes to, the distinction between "artboy" and "geek" is becoming less and less tangible, and I would have to agree. Throughout the last 15-20 years, almost all of our new technologies are based in art. Take the iPod for example, a sleek and dare-I-say- sexy piece of technology that was the brain child of geeks. It seems to me that this article should have been written way before seven years ago.