‘Computer Geeks’ Deserve Some Respect

If I were a computer industry mogul, I would not invite your liberal over-biased reporter Amy Harmon to any computer conference. Does that sentence offend you? It should, just as I was offended reading “Planting Net Seeds in Third World” (July 6).

Her Innovation column refers to the “transport [of] a bunch of Third World computer geeks to Hawaii” for an Internet conference. Is the term computer geeks appropriate for describing technical professionals? You certainly wouldn’t demean any other profession this way.

Is it that your reporter doesn’t understand that it is the computer professionals who are transforming the vision of the future faster than any other industry? Or is it her liberal bias that working with computers rather than interviewing people is a dehumanizing personal trait?

I would like to see an appropriate apology for such blatant stereotyping of people that have such higher ideals as: “I could be making a lot more money. But I would do anything to help my country, and I think there is a lot to do in this area now.”

STEVE JAKSTIS

Westminster