The characters, including an engineer at a troubled computer-hardware firm, live in an Americanized work environment, yet certain emotions nearly lost to Americans, such as modesty and shame, still rule their lives.

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At the opposite end of the savvy spectrum, Ari Shamash, a middle-aged engineer who led the hardware course, was accompanied by his own mother and father, septegenarians whose only exposure to technology has been through their son, even from a young age.

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