Although I thoroughly enjoy holding tangible copies of music albums, putting the Beatles on iTunes will open up younger generations to the amazing songs that have ruled among music fans from the late 1960s to this day.
Manufacturers who use Mr. Street's scanning data to produce tangible copies are able, even with advances in recent years in devices known as rapid prototyping machines, to make only so-so synthetic reproductions of the originals.
It may be that the novel War and Peace is a universal, a thing that is in some mode present in each of the many tangible copies of the novel.
That would give every citizen in the nation the confidence that there is tangible evidence — a hard copy, if you will — of every vote.
If somebody "steals" your idea for an article or research project, it might be an ethical issue, but it is not a legal issue unless they copy something tangible.
This paper aims at drawing attention to the actual technologies in use for solid printing (digital fabrication) used for the realization of material copies, therefore tangible, of three-dimensional digital virtual models.
Anyone who hates hypocrisy and double standards must be gratified to read that the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has begun to pay a tangible price for the "inadvertent copying" from others' works for use in her own ("Writer Leaves 'NewsHour' in Furor Over Book," news article, Feb. 28).
Or a real, tangible one-man troll, studiously copying and pasting the same tweet to a list of completely arbitrary accounts in the hope that one of them might offer him a porn contract so he could post the whole exchange on Reddit?
Coffee-cart vendors waved front pages and people scrambled to find copies of their own, tangible proof.
Additionally, the printed 3-D structures can provide unique educational opportunities outside of traditional lecture halls and away from computer workstations environments as they provide a tangible representation of data when a digital copy is unavailable or inconvenient to share.
