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To: marktwain

And the news media’s lust for hysteria continues...

“Virtual reality” was a big hype for a long time, with ignorant newsies and busybodies and polypragmatons concocting goblins from what little they understood of the subject. Unable to keep up with the hype, the technology practically died.

I’m seeing the same thing here. Having no concept of the physics & mechanics involved, reporters and other meddlers impute their fear of “pushbutton demons” on the latest sutable emerging technology, making it front-page panic until some other hobgoblin can occupy the small minds.


4 posted on 10/09/2012 7:12:32 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: ctdonath2

Our 3D printer saved us a ton of money while working on prototypes,,multiple engineering iterations get expensive. We used plastics though,,not metal. That’s interesting. Basically you convert just about any type of CAD drawing via the printer software. Our stuff usually took hours to print, and the machine ran very hot. Ours was a medium size, cost about 45k at the time.


7 posted on 10/09/2012 7:16:20 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: ctdonath2

I looked up ‘polypragmatons’ on google and your post came up first.


31 posted on 10/09/2012 7:40:38 AM PDT by posterchild (Remember that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.)
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To: ctdonath2

“polypragmatons”

Thanks for the new word!


55 posted on 10/09/2012 8:50:26 AM PDT by ThirdMate
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