But most experts don't see that strategy as the best alternative in a high-tech world that has more reality-TV-loving consumers demanding an interactive process.
Those who think we can jump-start the economy by encouraging high tech start-ups need a reality check, given that too many of these start-ups wind up outsourcing much of their work.
He founded Oblong Industries in 2006 as a first step to bringing ideas like the Minority Report interface into the real world, which means he knows as well as anyone where the bounds of sci-fi end and a high-tech new reality begins.
But besides that there isn't much tech – there's an old-fashioned mirror for try-ons, which is the exact opposite of the high-tech augmented reality that Snapbots use to let you try on Spectacles.
It's a political reality, however disheartening, that the high tech industry has been slow to grasp.
But the reality of working in the high tech industry crunching code, reconfiguring desktops, working in IT support is decidedly less glamorous.
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