Come to think of it, the same thing happened in 2000 when a flood of investors borrowed on their tech stock paper profits, only to see their portfolios melt when the tech bubble burst.
Perfect voting systems are also impossible to devise, but America's seems peculiarly stuck in a mid-tech wasteland neither simple and old fashioned (putting your cross on a piece of paper) nor simple and high-tech (clicking on a computer).
Remember the Netscapes, he exhorts, the high-tech stars that gained fans, made paper millionaires of the early staff and then burned up in the heat of competition.
That's because the three men who created Blue Man a trippy cabaret act that features three mute men in blue face paint backed by high-tech special effects and lots of toilet paper, food and other props did appear on Leno and they do shill (silently) for Intel.
For tech startups, having founder equity can make you a paper millionaire overnight although that money can take years to actually reach the bank.
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In a paper published in the January issue of Cryptologia, he uses low-tech 16th-century methods, rather than 20th-century computing, to generate text resembling that in the book.
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And with that, the waiter comes along with a bill and, rather appropriately, a paper receipt, prompting a smile from Stegmann and bringing our latest Shoreditch tech safari to an end.
As we outline in our paper in the July issue of Nature Biotechnology, LS venture investing dramatically outperformed Tech venture investing over the past decade.
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In an article on the FT's website, the paper said 12 posts titled "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army" appeared on its Tech blog between 8:38 a.m. and 8:42 a.m. on Friday.
While Japan was investing in high-tech industries the United States was simultaneously accelerating the financialization of its economy, creating trillions of dollars of paper wealth that has largely vanished over the last two years.
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Indeed, a modern marvel is the bipartisan consensus that a government incompetent to make paper clips should nonetheless spearhead core frontier areas like basic research, green and renewable energy, nanotechnology, science, tech and engineering education funding and more.
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