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From Wikipedia’s “French Revolution” (5 July 2006):
On July 14, 1789, after hours of combat, the insurgents seized the Bastille prison, killing the governor, Marquis Bernard de Launay, and several of his guards. Although the Parisians released only seven prisoners; four forgers, two lunatics, and a sexual offender, the Bastille served as a potent symbol of [...]

Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From James Grimmelmann’s “On the Second Life Tax Revolt“:
The Boston Tea Party was the expression of mercantile anger at taxes: the protesters wanted was a revision of British tax policies to favor colonial merchants at the expense of merchants in England. Economically speaking, the entire American Revolution was a scheme to improve the fortunes of [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Joel Kurtzman, Interview with Gary Hamel, Strategy & Business (4th Qtr 1997):
One of the most interesting cases of all is CNN, which “saw at least three things that had already changed in our world that others had not yet put together”: technology changes produced small satellite uplinks that made it possible to report from [...]

Posted on November 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From "The Challenges Facing Nanotechnology", on Ockham’s Razor:
Let us now examine nanotechnology, and assess the hurdles it must overcome before it becomes a society-transforming revolution. In our view there are four major issues:
Feasibility: can we do what we claim we can do, or is it as fantastic as the Nanobot?
Secondly, economic value: does it change [...]

Posted on October 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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