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doubleplusgood

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Sun Dec-05-04 12:46 AM
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6. Bill Gates, etc. did in the USSR

I've always thought that the advent of PC technology in industry helped do in the Soviets by being one of the factors in increasing productivity in the West, leaving the Russians hopelessly behind. Would a paranoid Soviet state have given people access to PC's to keep up with the West...in essence letting people have access to the equivalent of printing presses ?

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