| Sumario: | The article focuses on issues related to the technology revolution in campus. Computer people at educational institutions usually have a vision. In trying to make that vision a reality, they have often run up against limited resources, institutional bureaucracy, and just plain stubborn resistance. So, they have had to become sellers. In the interest of promoting their vision of the future, they have had to believe, and get others to believe, in some myths. The benefits of technology can be quantified, and the results of computerization can be measured. The benefits of automation in an educational environment are often intangible and not measurable. Contrary to what programmers would like to believe, programming is still an inexact and basically unmanageable process, fraught with guesswork and a great deal of wishful thinking. Confidence in technology has to be restored in higher education. If technology is to become part of everyday campus life, without crises, without misspent resources, and without casualties, computer professionals must present their case to the technologically unsophisticated without creating an unbridgeable gap between expectations and reality. It is important to remember that, in the final analysis, the real revolutions in higher education take place in the human arena, not the technological one.
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