I am not a programmer, developer, nerd, maybe a geek — the “one who is primarily motivated by passion”. I am a generally intelligent person with excessive curiosity and energy.

Technology interests me only as a means to an end.
I am not interested in the process, rather in what it will give me (or other people) in the end:

• Will/can it save me some time
• Will/can it make me more efficient / productive: can I learn more or get more done within the same unit of time
• How can it connect me with others or knowledge of/from others
• Can it entertain me based on my interests vs. interests of “an average female of my age” vs. interests of large public / audience.

I appreciate “Web 2.0” or “social media” related applications and services:

blogs, citizen journalism, online social networking, RSS feeds for news reading, tagging / social bookmaking, online audio and video

for how they empowered a single person (the type that is willing to be empowered.)

On the adoption curve, I qualify myself as an Earleist “Early Majority / Pragmatics”.
Early Majority: 34% of the population is willing to ride along with the first large wave of adopters. They have less tolerance for risk, are more expedient (interested in what technology can do for them), are generally not interested in technology for its own sake, and require that the technology be easy to use and supported.*

*From “Crossing the Chasm” book by Geoffrey A. Moore.
Source for The Technology Adoption Curve Image: fuze.