Where Did All The Farmers Go?
Sometimes you get a confluence of things you read that make give you a new insight into the way things work. I am reading Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris’ excellent biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Then, this morning, I read...
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Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer…. (25) New technologies carry enormous power with them. Those who grasp what the new technologies mean, as opposed to applying them to old ways of working, will own the future. What we are...
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The first media mogul… Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni understood mass media. While he was still an exile in Paris he began to smuggle audio casettes into the Shah’s Iran. On the tapes, which became wildly popular, he cast the Shah...
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