Emerging AI: What awaits us?

Lessons from another tech revolution not so long ago

“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