Posted by Bruce Sterling to Beyond the Beyond.

Overheard at the "INTELLIGENT PRINTING" conference, Oct 2006

"We're in the business of putting goo on a substrate."

"We need a taxonomy for 'printing-that-is-no-longer-printing.'"

"Your mega-customer, the anchor tenant in the mall of your dreams"

"It's the business of killing trees and putting chemicals on them."

"Baseball cards that suck in energy and run e-ink animated displays"

"They're not hiding, they're just selective."

"We help companies put together arguments and stories to win that venture money."

"Those Austrian farm-boys didn't know that ink-plants were supposed to be messy, so that was one of the cleanest plants they ever had."

"Electronic cardboard blurs the line between printed objects and the virtual world."

"The supply chain is a network of atoms."

"Six trillion RFID tag is four orders of magnitude bigger than any electronic item ever made."

"You can't take on the Silicon Gorilla face to face."

"Fluidic Self-Assembly Machines aren't 'printing' -- they're the competition."

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