> Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey? No... Indira indeed understood s

> 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.