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.
But not everyone sees the bigger picture -- that the global economy will improve by moving away from dependence on fossil fuel, that investments in renewable energy can create jobs and that a new revolution is needed to replace the outdated Industrial Revolution.
Since the Industrial Revolution, new business tools have promised to transform the way we do business.
But the industrial revolution led to a new post-Italian era, with factory production in France, Germany and even Japan.
It plans to create a new interpretation set at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution.
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits by Chris Anderson is from January 2010, but it is perhaps more relevant and on the mark today.
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From the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution came a system of public high schools that prepared our citizens for a new age.
For companies such as AgilOne, the new face of digital marketing, if not a second Industrial Revolution, is a newly highly personal and focused approach derived from assembling mass quantities of data.
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This new industrial economy is already evident in those parts of the country embracing the energy revolution, notably Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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"We have been very careful to record these remnants of the Industrial Revolution and we will look to keep some artefacts for use in the new building or elsewhere, " he added.
Rod : Three sudden developments have come together to create what we know as the digital revolution, which is rapidly propelling us from the Industrial Age into the new and very different Digital Age.
The 27 member nations of the European Union have committed to establishing a five-pillar infrastructure for a Third Industrial Revolution based on this new convergence of communication and energy.
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