FROM his office in Gurgaon, a boom-town next to Delhi, the future looks rosy to Arun Kumar, boss of Flextronics Software Systems (FSS), and one of the architects of India's information-technology triumphs.
Anselmo's oft-repeated motto was "truth and technology will triumph over bullshit and bureaucracy".
"I knew the factors, but I kept believing technology would triumph over them".
That seemed the ultimate symbol of technology's triumph over a medieval scourge.Alas, it turns out that the end of vaccination has unleashed new demons.
The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning".
The title, another Hopi derivation, translates roughly as "civilized violence," and the film Mr. Reggio envisions will acknowledge that technology has triumphed over nature.
For even when 20th-century progress is most undeniable, prediction suggests not a continued ascent, but the possibility, perhaps even the imminence, of some catastrophe: another and more lethal world war, an ecological disaster, a technology whose triumphs may make the world uninhabitable by the human species, or whatever current shape the nightmare may take.
Sure, the gearheads in the labs and the techno-utopians in the user groups will forever believe that technology always triumphs.
As Hogarth et al (2012, p. 247) note, 'the molecularisation of screening may not be a zero-sum game in which new technologies eventually triumph over older ones'.
The game ended in a goalless draw, 0 to 0, and even the most technically knowing among the spectators admitted to a long yawn of despair, as though they were watching once more the victory of technology over imagination, mechanism triumphing over emotional energy.
