"The Third Culture"

For the longest time there have been what many have broken down into two distinct cultures. There is science culture. Science culture is basically, the community inside society that is responsible for all the convienent products that exist in our world today. The production of these products has helped fuel what has come to be known in society today as popular culture. With the spread of records, radio, television, tapes, later cds, and even more recently mp3s, popular culture has become deeply embedded into our day to day lives, and it is all due to science culture. In the article "The Third Culture" by Kevin Kelly, he makes a point of saying that as science culture has helped magnify popular culture it has gone almost completely unacknowledged for all the work that it has done. The article states that despite the tensions between the two cultures, a third one has emerged. This new culture is described to be "pop culture based on technology... Nerd culture." The group of people who make up this "third culture" try as much as possible to distance themselves both from scientists and art, stating that unlike art which emphasizes meaning, this third culture values "creation, rather than creativity."