Driving Paulson's huge investment in hardware, software and communications links is his belief that technology will fundamentally change the way securities are traded--and drastically increase the variety of what is traded.

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Driving Paulson's huge investment in hardware, software and communications links is his belief that the days of the conventional trading floor are numbered--and that the stock, options and commodities exchanges have been in denial or too sluggish to do much about it.

FORBES: Fear, Greed And Technology

He said 3D printing was another way that the firm wanted to build links to that vast community of software and hardware engineers.

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