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Brad says that people who service and maintain stuff could lose their jobs as products become self-maintaining.
Economics of Nanotechnology, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To get a self-maintaining multilingual blog, simply:
Web Translations » Blog Archive » qTranslate - multilingual plugin for Wordpress 2010
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Then again, no one had ever created a self-maintaining, self-improving species of machines before.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Until self-maintaining roads are delivered to us by science, the tolls and the gasoline taxes and the bond levies are the best we can do.
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The crew are shown an intact & self-maintaining underground Krell laboratory, dubbed a "nursery", which includes a "plastic educator" brain-booster machine that resulted in the death of the captain of the Bellerophon.
Archive 2008-01-01 Chuck Wells 2008
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Resnooze is an almost self-maintaining to-do list - when a reminder bothers too much, it can be deleted or set as monthly in a single click directly from the email message.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Not a reason on earth, in the long term, why the bases shouldn't flourish as self-maintaining communities.
the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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Not a reason on earth, in the long term, why the bases shouldn't flourish as self-maintaining communities.
The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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I'm particularly interested in the strong assertion that , with proper design elements in place, this community would have become self-maintaining and that the ownership felt by regular reader / editors would have controlled the impact of vandalism.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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But organisms are unlike artifacts in that they are not produced or maintained by an external cause, but instead have the self-producing and self-maintaining character that is revealed in the kinds of vital properties
Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology Ginsborg, Hannah 2005
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