"dreamware" meaning in English

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          "text": "To most people Revere Ware is dreamware. To be owned and treasured some day as the ultimate in stainless steel cookware. […] No need to wait. Revere Ware Copper Clad is priced to be owned now and lasts for years and years.",
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          "text": "Traditionally the designer who fashions scientific dreamware into workable wakingware, the engineer of old has sired an immense family of new offspring whose jobs were actually created by the Space Age, with more coming up daily. The main engineering groups of yesteryear—mechanical, civil, electrical, aeronautical, automotive, nuclear—have branched out or evolved into new specialities, such as rocket propulsion, payload ratios, fuel flow, telemetry, data-processing, materials-testing, g-stress factors and reliability of rocket systems.",
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          "text": "To most people Revere Ware is dreamware. To be owned and treasured some day as the ultimate in stainless steel cookware. […] No need to wait. Revere Ware Copper Clad is priced to be owned now and lasts for years and years.",
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          "text": "The painting could serve as a sign over a shop selling dreamware. Legend erases the line between conscious and unconscious. The images are both those released in sleep and those carried from waking into sleep and, as we look at the painting, from sleep into our awake eye.",
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          "text": "So much of our contemporary theological dreamware is about escape. We long for heaven. We fix our eyes on the other world. We want out!",
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          "text": "When the Loki ‘exclusive’ appeared, I spoke to an ex-Sinclair designer. He hadn’t heard of the project – ‘dreamware’, he called it – and poured scorn upon the suggested price of £200.",
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          "text": "\"At this point, Dbase IV is dreamware; the message to me is that they're having trouble delivering on the core technology,\" said Richard Schwartz, vice-president of data base technology for Paradox developer Borland International.",
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          "text": "You could create problems for your company if you downplay current products and hype the dreamware that may never become reality.",
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          "text": "Frequently, developers also consider a third kind of proprietary technology: the imaginary one. It's the perfect technology that some developers dream of programming. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't know how to compare middleware with dreamware.",
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          "text": "[C]ountries are relying on a future technology fix rather than acting in the short term to reduce emissions. Indeed, given that the technologies are not actually existing, this article is critical for the hubris associated with them, when they do not even have the 'temporary' status as described of fixes in general. Rather, they are aspirational technological dreamware that defer immediate and sustained action on emissions.",
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