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Tech Talk: A star of the crowdfunding universe
On December 4, 2012, I wrote in my column about a computer game that developer Chris Roberts was working on. What made that game different was that — uniquely for the time — it was crowd-funded via Kickstarter, and raised an astonishing 7 million dollars. …