But some experts maintain technology already has the answers.
Mr. Copeland said he would study the new proposal but added that any proposal "that makes it more difficult for us to access and maintain technology expertise in the age of technology can't be a good idea".
Fittingly, Calder Williams namechecks both that film and its baroque follow-up City of Lost Children – identifying their timeless, flea-market aesthetic as a portent of a world hurtling backwards, an image of our being on the one hand too broke to maintain technology and, on the other, out of space to bury our rubbish, ending up by necessity recycling, repurposing and creatively salvaging.
Because it's people who architect systems, make design trade-offs, create or choose software, deploy and maintain technology, and who are forced to ride to the rescue when things go wrong.
Societal differences are also apparent with regard to chronically critically ill patients; the willingness to maintain technology-dependent lifestyles varies, as seen with neonatal resuscitation [ 49].
"Rather than excess funds being diverted to the city's general fund," Mr. O'Brien said, "the money should be spent on upgrading and maintaining technology, staff, equipment".
"These are people who have a bunch of other struggles in their lives and the expense of maintaining technology and mastering it is also pretty significant for them," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew project.
Wheelchairs also provide a case study in the challenge of distributing, using, and maintaining technology in very low-resourced environments, and the challenges inherent when the user of the technology is not empowered to directly make the purchasing decision.
So, for example, Shinsegae I&C, spun out as an independent company in 1997, provides IT services and maintains technology infrastructure for Shinsegae retail operations.
Most universities around the world allocate large budgets to purchasing and maintaining technology and the virtualization of their services and management processes.
