You’re having a hard time distinguishing nerds and hippies.
Hippies live at the center of technology and humanities.
Nerds sit purely in technology.
Hippies live at the center of technology and humanities.
Nerds sit purely in technology.
Nerds are also not necessarily all about technology. "Math nerd" was a really common use of the term for a long time, for example. "Nerd" is someone with deep knowledge about a particular subject.