It was not until 40, 000 years ago that they began to re-establish conjugal relations, possibly as a result of the technological revolution of the Late Stone Age, which yielded new and more finely crafted tools.
The research shows that a one-degree temperature variation that took 11 millennia to occur since the end of the last major ice age has now been replicated in 150 years, since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
The golden age of American productivity growth followed what is called the second industrial revolution, in 1860-1900, which yielded a cluster of genuinely paradigm-shifting inventions: electric power, the internal combustion engine, modern industrial chemistry and telecommunications.
The Israel Test describes in riveting detail both the massive contributions of mainly Diaspora Jews to the US victories in World War II and the Cold War and to the scientific revolutions of the 20th century that set the foundations for the computer age, and the massive contributions of Israeli Jews to the digital revolution that defines and shapes our economic realities today.
You think back to the semiconductor revolution, the age of computing, and of course, the Internet -- and most recently, with regard to the Internet, the rise of social networks connecting hundreds of millions of people around the world in milliseconds.
From the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution came a system of public high schools that prepared our citizens for a new age.
It coincides with the rise of agriculture and civilization, through the industrial revolution to the information age today.
That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
We all know that the age of one-way marketing is well and truly over thanks to the digital revolution.
Without knowing it, this man of the industrial revolution spent part of his legacy establishing a center for what would become the Age of Innovation.
It was from here that Peter undertook the first great modernization of Russia, where citizens agitated for the October Revolution that ushered in the Communist age, and where residents later pushed for Democratic reform as Communism crumbled.
Indeed, many publishing executives like to argue that the digital revolution could usher in a golden age of reading in which many more people will be exposed to digital texts.
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You cannot understand the Cuban Revolution, with its elements from the Age of Enlightenment and modern thought, only from the perspective of Marxist thought, or from the European revolutionary thought.
It is probably no coincidence that the Humanitarian Revolution came on the heels of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, that the Long Peace and rights revolutions coincided with the electronic global village.
The profundity of this technological revolution is that in an age when our material needs (at least in rich countries) are largely met, the commodity that stands out as being most scarce is life-span itself.
The population has doubled since 1979, which means that two out of three Iranians are under the age of 30 and fewer than one in three can remember the revolution.
Economic historians like Joel Mokyr note a watershed transition between Mercantilist economics and modern Industrial Age economics around the turn of the 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution took off.
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The renegade was born out of preparation which is largely attributable to our new marching orders which started with the technology revolution and information age.
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