But it is the car that changed the world, not the upstream industry, which of course expanded enormously to fuel the revolution.

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The impetus for the coming revolution, of course, is the Internet, which big business hopes to turn into a borderless shopping mall.

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The president and Congress have stumbled into a fiscal revolution in the course of competitive political gesturing.

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Clearly he was a student during and immediately after the Iranian revolution, and of course, the students were extremely active during that period of time.

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Of course, plenty of Egyptians take rightful pride in the achievements of the revolution.

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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.

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The rise of the machines has become so pervasive that many are proclaiming a new industrial revolution, the main difference, of course, being that now even highly educated knowledge workers are getting displaced.

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Indeed, the workplace revolution that lies ahead may be very like the one that, in the course of the 1970s and 1980s, brought millions of mothers into the job market.

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