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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
join us for a special talk, by STS Professor Emeritus Loren Graham:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Russia’s
Dilemma: Natural Resource State or High-Tech Player?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday,
Oct. 18, 4 - 5:30 pm <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Room
E51-275<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Russia has a very
unusual pattern in its effort to modernize technologically. For three
hundred years, since the time of Peter the Great, it has made repeated attempts
to catch up in modern technology, and it has achieved many momentary successes
– in railroads, in armaments, in atomic energy, in space flights, in
aviation, and in many other fields – but it has fallen back behind again
after these achievements. Today it is largely dependent on extractive
industries (especially oil and gas) for its economic prosperity, not high
technology. At the present time it is making another major effort to catch up
– especially in nanotechnology and in the construction of a
“Russian Silicon Valley” in Skolkovo. I have made four trips
to Russia in the last five months examining these efforts, and in my talk I
will describe them and give some opinions about their probability of success or
lack of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For
a little info on Prof. Graham: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/graham.html">http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/graham.html</a>
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