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Industrial Revolution

1760–1840 agrarian to industrial era shift. The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global...

Fourth Industrial Revolution

2010s–present technological convergence era. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as 4IR, or Industry 4.0, is a neologism describing rapid technological advancement in the 21st century. It...

Second Industrial Revolution

1870–1914 electrical and chemical era. The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardisation, mass production...

Information Age

Industrial shift to information technology. rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution, to an economy centered on information technology. The onset of...

Industrial Revolution in the United States

In the United States from the late 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution affected the U.S. economy, progressing it from manual labor, farm...

Industrial Society and Its Future

1995 essay by Ted Kaczynski. anti-technology essay by Ted Kaczynski. The manifesto contends that the Industrial Revolution began a harmful process of natural destruction brought about by...

Post-industrial society

Society whose service sector provides more economic value than manufacturing. from an industrial to an informational economy. Veneris, Yannis. Modeling the transition from the Industrial to the Informational Revolution, Environment...

Child labour in the British Industrial Revolution

When the Industrial Revolution began, industrialists used children as a workforce. Children as young as four and five years old often worked the same...

Steam power during the Industrial Revolution

technologies of the Industrial Revolution, although steam did not replace water power in importance in Britain until after the Industrial Revolution. From Englishman...

The Third Industrial Revolution

Book by Jeremy Rifkin. The Third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World is a book by Jeremy Rifkin published in 2011. The...

World Economic Forum

Swiss nonprofit foundation. emissions in China and other large industrial nations. Also in 2017, WEF launched the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for the Earth Initiative, a collaboration...

Industrial society

Society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production. of time following the Industrial Revolution, and replaced the agrarian societies of the pre-modern, pre-industrial age. Industrial societies are generally...