And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.

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The Phillips "theorem" caused no end of mischief after the collapse of the gold-based international monetary system in 1971: Leaders tried to manipulate the value of money to create prosperity but ended up creating less growth and more instability.

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Doing something effective and substantive, such as creating a modernized version of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system--which lasted from the end of the Second World War until the early 1970s and gave us an era of great, noninflationary economic growth--will not even be broached.

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The company added that it was on track to sell 5 million units by the end of the year, based on its estimates and the number of pre-orders for the system.

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