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This effort, especially PowerPoint, may have saved many lives by slowing everything down a bit.

To be less blase, that list is far more pencil manufacturer than it is bomb sight manufacturer, whereas holo-lens sales to the military definitely seem bit more like a bomb sight than they do a pencil.

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Is it? Did you see the hololens promo of the lift engineer getting augmented reality advice to change components. The amount of deployed specialist equipment that could benefit from that is certainly more pencil than sword.

Saying that the purchase is intended to increase lethality, right at the top of the report, might make me suspect that the army aren't buying these to investigate the great strides they can accomplish in repairing municipal infrastructure.

Though it will admittedly make plenty of jobs for the people that do.

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