“I will not go to college today if you don't buy me a nylon saree," I heard the sobbing voice of my sister talking to our parents.
"What is wrong with the half a dozen sarees we have bought you for college?" I heard our mother ask.
"They are all cotton sarees - only old women wear them!" I heard my sister say, again in a sobbing voice.
This memory is from the 1960s, when I was a high-school student and my sister had just entered college. I found myself remembering this scene just the other day, nearly 60 years later.
What was it that brought this apparently trivial incident back to my mind? Well, let me for a moment go back to that time: My parents pacified my sister by getting her the nylon sarees she wanted as apparel for the "modern" girl. Fast forward to today. Today, in the 2020s, not one of my women friends/relatives would agree to be seen in a saree made of anything remotely synthetic, let alone nylon. What is it that transforms something from a symbol of modernity to something to be avoided?
Will something similar happen to our current enthusiasm for artificial intelligence/digital revolution/machine learning/deep learning, to use some of the words that describe the things that capture the headlines of our everyday life today?
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