http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/05/oh_fuck_holograms_will_kill_us Comments On: OH FUCK HOLOGRAMS WILL KILL US ALL by Erik Henriksen en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I'm reminded of the story of the Russian and American space programs. We needed a way to write things down in zero gravity, and since most pens don't work upside down we spent several million dollars developing and testing a pen that was under pressure so that ink would flow out of it, yet wouldn't leak when it wasn't writing and above all, wouldn't splatter ink all over the place if they bumped into it wrong. The Russian used a pencil.
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