New technology is just the tip of the fifth industrial revolution iceberg (Picture: Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP/Getty Images) There were nearly two centuries between the first and second industrial revolutions.
We’re now living in either the third or fourth industrial revolution (also known as Industry 4.0), depending on who you talk to, and we’re ‘on the cusp’ of the fifth one.
With the third only fully getting underway in 2012, according to the Economist , that’s a lot of industrial revolutions for a decade.The first mechanised the textile industry, the second created the means for mass production and the third is around the […]
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