Siemens started building the Bushehr plant in 1975, but quickly abandoned the project after the Islamic revolution took place in Iran four years later.
David Woodward, the British Petroleum executive in charge of the pipeline project, worried as he watched the revolution unfold on television.
It's not a democratic revolution but it's a project, born out of necessity, to rebuild a city from the bottom up, harnessing the skills, resources and intent of its individuals.
But is this project, and others like it, the jobs revolution spark we want?
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The genetics revolution is being driven by the Human Genome Project, funded by government and charity, which has already sequenced and mapped two-thirds of the genome, with 10% more added each month.
The human genome project itself, which was the enabling factor of this revolution, was perfectly exponential with the number of base pairs being sequenced doubling every year and the cost per base pair coming down by half every year.
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"This city hopefully will bring the tech companies together and spark a new ICT revolution in Ghana, " she says, adding that the project could equip local techies with the necessary skills to develop apps that would solve community problems, as well as provide a platform for tech companies to find new talent and opportunities to invest in.
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The project, part of the University for Industry, was described by Mr Blunkett as a "revolution in learning".
Only after the project ended, and new, cheaper entrants entered the field, did we get a new revolution in genetics.
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When combined with the free online textbooks at sites like Textbook Revolution and TextBooksFree, plus other course books from Google Books, World Public Library, and Project Guttenberg, M.
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