Hypewatch: “Home fabrication, the biggest thing since money”

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I think that within 10 years private individuals will be able to make for themselves virtually any manufactured product that is today sold by industry. I sometimes wonder if politicians realise that the entire basis of the human economy is about to undergo the biggest change since the invention of money.
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Hypewatch: “Leonardo was a blogger”

Inflated claims for technology #1:
Once you start to look for bloglike phenomena in the history of our civilization, you start to find them everywhere. The Talmudic tradition […] is […] a form of proto-blogging – scholars and thinkers debating the meaning of text passages from another era and creating commentaries, refinements, additions, and different shades [...]


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