In his 1976 book The Dream Machine he looked back fondly on what he considered the golden age of American automaking--1946 to 1965.

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My buddy Mikey and I would always break for supper, usually chili dogs, and drop a few quarters playing Spy Hunter in the Dream Machine.

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Yet the bankers, together with the central banks, want Europe the fabricate money just like the Federal Reserve in the U.S. A money creation machine is the dream of all bankers.

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Sqn Ldr Duncan Mason said the new machine was "a dream" to fly.

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Computers have become remarkably useful but are still a far cry from the dream of early computer pioneers of a machine so smart it would be indistinguishable from a human.

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But if NVIDIA evolves into my dream machine, one of us might be able use the gaming PC and the very nice television, and my husband can use the little SHIELD.

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Part laptop, part tablet, part home console, and part portable console, the Razer Edge is the fruition of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan's dream to create a "true" portable PC gaming machine.

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