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When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Adoption Campus Coastal Cool Geeks Google Like Math New New Technologies Perhaps Productivity Prosperity Radical Revolution Rural Source Spaces Street Surge Technological Technologies Think Wall Wall Street Wizards You

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Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: City Excite Fancy Farmers Friends Know Most Systems

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One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: American American Society Been Century Communities Creative Destruction Early Emerged Farmers Forgotten Government Great How Largely Over Smoothly Society Triumphant Triumphs 20Th Century

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Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: About Abundant Complicate Could Countries Curse Dictatorships Domestic Economists Much Natural Natural Resources Oil Politics Reason Resources Talk Thrive Too Too Much

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The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: About Abundant Becomes Challenge Child Conservation Energy Even Fights Fossil Fuel Like Make More Off Old Ourselves Play Seem Will

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The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Any Assumptions Bloody Companies East Events Guess Had Huge Ideal Less Mattered Middle Middle East Might Multinational Painful Reached Reminders Strategies Than Tragedy Were World

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Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Advantage Been Brand Business Create Environmentally Foods Friendly Long Mainstream Organic Particularly Practices

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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: College History Language Literature Myself Nation Speak Studied Think I Think

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I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: After He Himself Over President Putin Took

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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Along Back Became Canada Drawing Executive Experience Former Found Foundation Helped Her Homeland Independent Late Lawyer Legal Mother Moved Officer Other Parents Republics Russia Served She Soviet States Thirteen Ukraine Ukrainian 1990S

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: August 2nd, 1968

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