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These industrial revolutions are coming faster and faster, and somehow feel less transformative with each unveiling. I only know arguably two. I have no idea wh
by jonathankoren 3y ago
These industrial revolutions are coming faster and faster, and somehow feel less transformative with each unveiling. I only know arguably two. I have no idea what the third, let alone the fourth was.
- mcpackieh 3y agoIndustrial, chemical, and information.
- ben_w 3y agoFirst: powered tools, mechanised factories, basic but modern chemical processes. Second: mass production, interchangeable parts, reliable steel, telegraph and other basic uses of electricity. Third: computers and everything related to them. Fourth: all the buzzwords and not much substantial at this time — though when the dust settles, I won't be surprised if at least a few currently popular things are still seen as relevant and not merely flash-in-the-pan cultural artefacts like the 18th Amendment, patent medicine, or Spiritualism.