There have been booms in independent film-making before, but on previous occasions the studios have used their control of distribution systems and their libraries to fend off such competition.

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For instance, product-service systems like car sharing and tool libraries--in which a product we used to buy and take home becomes a service we use only as needed--offer us access to the products we want at a fraction of the ecological impact.

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And as a result, more than 170 projects are getting underway -- work on firehouses, and police stations, and roads, and sewer systems, and health clinics, and libraries, and universities.

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The next layer includes a variety of additional services and activities: radio and television studios, machine shops, carpentry shops, automatic teller systems, recreation facilities, chapels, libraries, athletic facilities, and the list goes on.

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Each group had its own submicron laboratories, fabs and systems-on-a-chip design libraries.

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The LTFS LTO file system allows modern digital tape storage to be used like NAS file systems and simplifies the use of magnetic tape libraries and allows faster access to the content stored on them.

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