Always possible, of course. And I don't mean to lessen the importance
of the issues discussed here--but most of the tech discussed here is,
in a sense, "vaporware" in the sense that you seem to be using that
term--i.e., it does not yet exist in practical form for widespread
use. This as opposed to the other sense in which I've seen the term
used--to refer to stuff that never did and likely never will exist in
ANY form...
jm
On 19 Jan 2001, at 21:45, Randy Smith wrote:
>
>
>
> >From: Michael Lowry <mike@datamann.com>
> >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> >To: extropians@extropy.org
> >Subject: Re: "Printing" a $15 Computer
> >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:15:46 -0500
> >
> >Randy Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > >From: "John Marlow" <johnmarlow@gmx.net>
> > > >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> > > >To: extropians@extropy.org
> > > >Subject: "Printing" a $15 Computer
> > > >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:04:07 -0800
> > > >
> > > >Interesting "speculation(?)"
> > >
> > > Here's a speculation for you: How much will the stock for this company
> >go
> > > up? I knwo a quick way to get rich: form a fake company and buy a
> > > journailist to writeup your bogus amazing discovery. Or you could just
> >give
> > > the journalist a post-writeup cut of the stock gains.
> > > Of course, I am not saying this is the case here--I know ***nothing***
> >about
> > > this particular case. Just speculation.
> >
> >Technically this is not impossible. Given a 1200 dpi printer resolution,
> >and a paper embedded with semiconductor compounds, and 'color' inks with
> >different dopants and conductors, a four color printer could easily
> >print the eqivalent of an 8086 chip on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper.
> >Maybe even a 286 chip. High resolution flatscreen displays are already
> >produced by printing methods (they are an offshoot of electroluminescent
> >lighting technology which is printed with silkscreening.)
> >
> >you'd have black as a silver or indium oxide conductor, red is an
> >insulator/dielectric, and yellow and blue would be positive and negative
> >dopants. Sell these ink cartridges at Staples, and every home office
> >immediately becomes a potential circuit prototyping facility. Then you'd
> >have a very high market pressure for higher and higher printer
> >resolution. How high a resolution can you buy for under $200? At 10,000
> >dpi you are reaching the point of pentium chips on a postcard.
>
>
> Actually, I didn't mean a real fake company, just basically that the
> invention being revealed to the public is vaporware, an the hype is just
> meant to raise the stock price of the company. The stockholders get rich,
> and the writer of the article gets rich. Sure it's illegal...or is it? Even
> if it is, you have to have evidence in order to indict. The payoff is worth
> it for everyone involved--millions in stock gains.
>
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