Are we Indians technology-averse?

Some examples that show we may be call for introspection

Just the other day, a very senior banker I was in conversation with said to me, “I just don’t understand technology”; in the same nonchalant way I could probably say, “I don’t understand tantra” — I mean, accepting its existence but not being bothered enough to dig deep enough to understand it. In a similar vein, the founder and head of a multimillion-dollar venture capital fund looked at me, exasperation writ large on his face, and said: “If you can think you can see the next five years and predict where this technology is going, you are pretending to be