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How quickly did the agricultural revolution happen? Probably much more slowly and we still call that a revolution.
by chmod600 5y ago
How quickly did the agricultural revolution happen? Probably much more slowly and we still call that a revolution.
- WJW 5y agoI think that schoolbooks from the year 3500 will categorize the industrial revolution as basically anywhere between 1700 and 2200 or so. There are still parts of the worlds rapidly industrializing (China is almost done, rest of Asia is in the middle of it, Africa will pick up the pace soon) and I think that eventually the rise of computers and software will be seen as just another growth spurt of the wider industrial revolution. Depending on how soon we develop practical fusion energy and/or nanotech, the industrial revolution could last for a few centuries more. It just feels less "revolutionary" because we're in the middle of it and we live it day by day.