bleeding edge

[rich]

sounds alot like the mindset of of the US military--pay and pay until
it causes massive bleeding

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.