COMPUTER POLICY 81 advanced sector consisting of model schools with computers etc. is to be built afresh while, in the rest, the bare rudiments of the three Rs are to be taught. The new computer policy seeks to aid the drive of the government to computerise its functions. This is sought to be done without either reforming the existing apparatus of building up adequate technical infrastructure. The belief that an autonomous high tech section can be insulated from the rest of the crisis ridden State apparatus, is companion to the belief that computerisation can take place without a healthy technical infrastructure. The "< impact on future employment, on the educational system and on white collar workers in such a policy, is obvious. The political implications of a state where support services for the bourgeosie are so different from that of the common man, is obviously a more authoritarian state. Perhaps Orwell's big brother will be replaced by computers and programs which seek to monitor every individual. 1 Secretary, Department of Electronics pro)ected these figures to newsmen when launching the new policies, Dataquest December 1984. 2. J Rada 'The linpjct of Microelectronics," ILO 1980 pp.55. 3 Dataquest March, 1985 4. Microelectronics Monitor, UN I DO April-Sept 1984 pp.30. 5. Dataquest ''Company Starategies— Game Plan for the Future" December 1984 p.63. 6. The Telegraph "No takers for SCL hi-tech" 28.3.1985. 7. Dieter Ernst "Restructuring World Industry in a period of Crisis—The role of Innovation UNIDO/FS.285. 1981 p. 155. 8. Microelectronics Monitor, April-Sept. 1984 p.40. 9. Ibid p.32. 10. Op at, ]. Roda. 11 Ibid.