"An India aspiring to a developed status must have a technology
vision.  ...We have to recognize that technology is the tool that
brings faster economic growth and needed inputs for national security.
...Therefore, the need of the hour is ’arm India with technology'."
-Abdul Kalam and Y. S. Rajan, _India 2020: A Vision for the New
Millennium_.  Delhi: Viking, 1998.  pp. 9, 5, 21.


March on! Fellow Robots and Cyborgs!
For ours is the future and the globe!
Science and technology more and more
Will make the world grow and glow.

Establish we will that it's all 'matter'
And spirituality will definitely shatter.
Finish we will colonizing the commons,
And fix our eyes on the Mars and the Moon.


On with our 'Brave New World' scheme!
Ah! Some hate science, what a shame!
Someday they will get our good intent,
If their minds are ever politically bent!


What a boon this modern science!
Why we care the primitive fiends?
Isn't this world a "wise man's burden"
And nuking and cloning and all such talents?


Community is for tribal folks,
Collectivity is a mythical lore!
Internet is our enjoyment form,
Individuality is our mechanical norm!


Compudate, video-date, call 1-900,
'Social' and emotions are not for our kindred.
Teleconfer with digits, telework with figids,
Aren't we, after all, numbers and symbols?


Television, telex, and telefax,
Televote in our town meetings.
E-mail, eff off everything human,
Enjoy virtual drugs and video sex.


When all is said and done, robots,
The whole big universe is a cyclotron.
We are the technocratic power barons
And anyone human is a clear moron!