I constantly wonder if the era of self-centered, socially-awkward developers is coming to an end (hopeful). More often that not the younger developers I see tend to be bucking that trend which should go a long way towards addressing this problem - unless of course they are the primary offenders. Are these instances centered around older or younger developers, I wonder? If younger then perhaps this entire assumption is baseless, in which case the path developers are on in general is indeed alarmingly derailed.