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The industrial revolution, which started a couple of hundred years ago in Europe, is now spreading across the world.

几百年前始于欧洲的工业革命现在正向全世界扩散。

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But the revolution started in earnest in the mid-2000s with the rise of Five Guys.

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And while the app revolution started with the easy stuff like games, social interaction, Instagram-like photo services, making newspapers easier to read mobile, or restaurants easier to schedule, apps now migrate to seeing, controlling and scheduling everything in the interstices of our economy, including things like automotive and aircraft maintenance.

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By contrast the computer revolution (really, the microprocessor revolution) that started in the 1960s does indeed seem fundamental, perhaps comparable in scope and impact to the creation of coins.

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