The realtime, social web is clearly not a required element to organize and execute a high impact revolution.
The high-tech revolution created an entirely new breed of wealthy techno-philanthropists who are using their fortunes to solve global, abundance-related challenges.
The next revolution in high tech is taking place inside the "cloud" of the Internet.
The genesis of the supply side revolution was high taxes and an inflation driven decade of stagnation in the Seventies.
The high-yield seeds of the Green Revolution were not only developed but often marketed by state-financed agricultural institutions.
Political leaders from eastern Libya, where most of the country's oil is pumped and last year's revolution started, demanded a high degree of autonomy.
But even if labour market rigidities keep unemployment high, France will never have a Thatcherite revolution.
It took Apple several decades (and an iPod revolution) to earn such a high level of consumer devotion.
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From the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution came a system of public high schools that prepared our citizens for a new age.
The green revolution, which spread enabling technologies of high-yield agriculture across the planet, resulted in doubling of grain production.
"I think John sees himself putting money into creating a revolution in the structure of media or high-tech companies, " says Robert Johnson, a Malone partner since 1980 and chairman of BET Holdings, which owns Black Entertainment Television.
But what makes the outlook for any company trying to sell games on the High Street even darker is the fact that the digital revolution is finally sweeping through this industry.
The controversy illustrates just how much the much-vaunted revolution in cancer therapy is driven by hype and high prices.
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The killing of Belaid was the country's first high-profile political assassination since Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" that toppled President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali two years ago and spawned the Arab Spring.
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It was one of the few high-level contacts between the two sides since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Many of these women create a powerful revolution just by the fact that they are working at such high levels.
The globalisation that followed the industrial revolution was brought to an end by two world wars, high protectionist barriers and the Great Depression.
"The Coachman, " which has never appeared before at auction, was part of the 1924 "Russian Art Exhibition" in New York, the first high-profile showing of the country's art after the 1917 revolution.
There is still plenty of the industrial revolution going on here, though, and officials admit that their high-tech ambitions will take time.
"Revolution" is probably the most overused word today, but what is happening in high tech is astonishing.
After Barak's legal revolution, however, the job of the attorney general became the equivalent of an imperial high commissioner.
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Thanks to the technology revolution, we know more about silicon, particularly when it comes to manufacturing products in high volume, than any other material in the world.
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Shortly after, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell proclaimed that " the revolution would not be tweeted" because the Internet's "weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism, " which is needed in order to spur real change.
As a result of these two major high-technology conflicts waged in the past decade, Chinese military analysts generally recognize and accept that some type of revolution in warfare is afoot.
Thanks to the information revolution, the rewards for university study are growing: in 1997 college graduates earned 77% more than high school graduates, up from a differential of 58% in 1975.
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