bleeding edge

[Erik T. Burns]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/bleeding-edge-thomas-pync_n_2410631.html?utm_hp_ref=books

A bit more, still speculative, always exciting...

On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:37 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> sounds right up Pynchon's alley here:
> 
> Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies incorporating
> those so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and
> lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of
> them.[1][2] The term bleeding edge was formed as an allusion to the
> similar terms "leading edge" and "cutting edge". It tends to imply
> even greater advancement, albeit at an increased risk of
> "metaphorically cutting until bleeding" because of the unreliability
> of the software or other technology.
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