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"Even less people will download physibles from The Pirate Bay than download ebooks, but those who do will shape the world for the rest of us. They will be that hot nozzle, spraying our sense of physical existence into reality according to precisely calculated coordinates."

Giant forging presses which made the jet age possible.

All form a government funded program in the '50s.

Wow.

Also see http://boingboing.net/2012/02/13/machines.html

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