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Sorry, that is not a fact, but a racist anecdote. Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you

by laxmin 5y ago

Sorry, that is not a fact, but a racist anecdote. Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? You won't talk about the thousand ways Indians were kept from immigrating to the US or acquiring computers and mainframes using sanctions.

Rexxar 5y ago
Criticizing one particular politician for a technical/economical decision is racist now ?
baybal2 5y ago
> Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? No... Indira indeed understood semiconductors, and "what those thinking machine thing is" way batter than most of her contemporaries. She was very educated. In fact, she was promoting computer education heavily, yet her vision for the computer was complete opposite of business minded Americans. She seen computers to be powerful, and heavily restricted machines in the future, gated behind the elite "oracular class" to prevent proletarians from computing something wrong (like finding out cong fudging economics figures.) For her vision of computers, mass manufacturing was not needed, and, worse, it was dangerous. She didn't mind computers costing millions of dollars, or being the size of a mountain, and only available few pieces per country as long as the owner would be her/the government. She later conceeded on this towards the end of her reign once she seen the industry choosing the Fairchild's path irreversably, but the ship has long since sailed.
naruvimama 5y ago
Indira is part of the dynasty. Her father Nehru the first Prime minister won 0 votes within the congress. Yet as fate would have he was propped up by M.K. Gandhi, the non-member dictator of the congress party. I as many other Indians suspect today was just a continuation of the colonial rule. So Indira like her father was a continuation of the colonial rule.

by laxmin 5y ago

Rexxar 5y ago

Criticizing one particular politician for a technical/economical decision is racist now ?

baybal2 5y ago

> Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? No... Indira indeed understood semiconductors, and "what those thinking machine thing is" way batter than most of her contemporaries. She was very educated. In fact, she was promoting computer education heavily, yet her vision for the computer was complete opposite of business minded Americans. She seen computers to be powerful, and heavily restricted machines in the future, gated behind the elite "oracular class" to prevent proletarians from computing something wrong (like finding out cong fudging economics figures.) For her vision of computers, mass manufacturing was not needed, and, worse, it was dangerous. She didn't mind computers costing millions of dollars, or being the size of a mountain, and only available few pieces per country as long as the owner would be her/the government. She later conceeded on this towards the end of her reign once she seen the industry choosing the Fairchild's path irreversably, but the ship has long since sailed.

naruvimama 5y ago

Indira is part of the dynasty. Her father Nehru the first Prime minister won 0 votes within the congress. Yet as fate would have he was propped up by M.K. Gandhi, the non-member dictator of the congress party. I as many other Indians suspect today was just a continuation of the colonial rule. So Indira like her father was a continuation of the colonial rule.