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Bruce Sterling
Jan 12, 2011 3:58 PM

Lady Gaga, industrial design maven

*Disciplinary silos just kind of VAPORIZING there.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/216428/lady_gagas_polaroid_gadgets_a_closer_look.html

*Note that the headmounted photo-display glasses are vaporware. Everybody somehow thinks they can build these. Why?

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