Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

Ine pointed me to Dr. Pew’s review of Mark J. Penn’s Microtrends - the small forces behind tomorrow’s big changes.
Dr. Pew discovers that she is part of about 8 out of the 70 niches that Penn identified.

A few examples:
Social Geeks:
First to get axed is the myth of the lonely, spotty techno-geek. Sixty per cent of the most enthusiastic tech users are extroverted, according to a poll cited by Penn; 41% of techies like to “get things going” at parties compared with only 24% of reluctant users. “If the old cliche was that techno-geeks have no friends, now it is the case that techno-geeks have a crazy, impossible number of friends,” Penn says.

Tech Fatales:
Girl Geek Early Adaptors. Women spend a third more on technology than men. They influence 57% of technology purchases, some $90 billion in 2006.

I guess it all depends on how you define “technology”. Is it limited to information and communication technology? Are games included? Or kitchen robots?