<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/bleeding-edge-thomas-pync_n_2410631.html?utm_hp_ref=books">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/bleeding-edge-thomas-pync_n_2410631.html?utm_hp_ref=books</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">A bit more, still speculative, always exciting...<br></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:37 PM, rich <<a href="mailto:richard.romeo@gmail.com">richard.romeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><span>sounds right up Pynchon's alley here:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies incorporating</span><br><span>those so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and</span><br><span>lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of</span><br><span>them.[1][2] The term bleeding edge was formed as an allusion to the</span><br><span>similar terms "leading edge" and "cutting edge". It tends to imply</span><br><span>even greater advancement, albeit at an increased risk of</span><br><span>"metaphorically cutting until bleeding" because of the unreliability</span><br><span>of the software or other technology.</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>