But the digs have gone from low tech to high tech, the captain's icy steel and chrome office looking, as so much else in the film, like a punch line waiting to happen.
That means the world of Robot Jones is charmingly low-tech, from his parents' simple, subservient mechanical functions to the absence of cellphones and computers at the school, which is presided over by a mean, technophobic principal.
Re "A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute" (front page, Oct. 23), about employees of high-technology companies who send their children to a Waldorf school that is pointedly low-tech: From 1993 to 1997 I was the chief domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, and oversaw the Clinton administration's program to connect classrooms to the Internet.
To the Editor: Re "A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute" (front page, Oct. 23), about employees of high-technology companies who send their children to a Waldorf school that is pointedly low-tech: From 1993 to 1997 I was the chief domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, and oversaw the Clinton administration's program to connect classrooms to the Internet.
Some new gadgets are high tech, like the T-shirt that plays an animation of the video game Pong; and some are low tech, like the jar spatula from Oxo, which is due in June.
He has proposed various configurations and designs from low tech, 200mph systems for local to high tech 4,000mph systems for continental and intercontinental transport.
Above is the instrument that makes the magic happen: his so-called "low tech rehydration bath," assembled from houseware and hardware store products.
"His attack method appears to be based on low sophistication, low tech, low cost techniques copied from other attacks, and echoes the rhetoric of Islamic State leaders in terms of methodology and attacking police and civilians but, at this stage, I have no evidence he discussed this with others.
The carbon emissions from landfill, low tech recycling (abroad) and high tech recycling (in Scotland) depend greatly on whether territorial or consumption boundaries are being considered.
As we report elsewhere (see Getting rich off Low Tech) people in businesses far removed from computer making and designing are building success by applying computers to mundane businesses.
They are defiantly low tech.
