Posted on 08/06/2013 9:52:29 PM PDT by ckilmer
Guys who run telephone sweatshops are telling us what the future is going to be like...yeah sure.
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3D printing is about where the desktop computer was in 1979. which is to say—still the plaything of guys like jobs and gates.
The big stuff right now is fracking and hand held telephone computers —which have only taken off in the last five years.
The next five years will probably reveal a bit more of 3d computers hand plus one or two other big technologies.
It would’ve been hillarious watching Gates, Jobs, and The Woz seeking defense work, but that’s nowhere near what I meant.
I meant to say that with the Cold War won, the tech industry now had the pick of the crop of newly minted engineers and tech workers, which the country no longer needed in the defense industry.
In other words, Reagan’s win made it possible for the tech industry to build itself up more quickly and easily because it to no longer needed to compete with the so-called military-industrial complex for workers.
Just remember, before high tech, many of the moguls, such as Howard Hughes who had much more than some rinkydink fleet of yacths, earned their money in defense.
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