Microlog Interesting
The naming of things
Bobbie Johnson doesn’t like the term ‘3D printer’, and neither does Tom Armitage. Both are correct that it doesn’t reflect what such machines actually do. Bobbie suggests a few alternatives, like ‘rep’. I prefer the unshortened ‘replicate’ myself; it already has some cultural cachet via Star Trek.
Fri 21 Oct 2011 at 13:59 ·
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You are reading The naming of things, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Interesting, and was published in October 2011.
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