Some effects of the Industrial Revolution could be seen as positive. Before the Industrial Revolution, employment was tied to the seasons. Workers usually lived in rural areas and primarily worked ...

In some fields of work, the impacts of this industrial revolution are already being felt. Automation in the world of manufacturing erased around 8 million jobs in the U.S., just in the first 10 ...

We are on the very edge of what will be the next industrial revolution. Manufacturing, shipping, agriculture, mining, and even railroads and transportation stand to be much more productive.

In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a meeting to consider the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its implications for manufacturing, as well as its likely ...

Capitalism and economic globalization have no shortage of critics. As Cassidy shows, their criticisms have remained strikingly consistent over the centuries.

This brave new world — known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0 — promises technological advancements. But along with these comes a need for new means of approaching cybersecurity ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in the fourth industrial revolution and China has the opportunity to become a leading force in this intelligence revolution. At the same time, the ...

In this admirably short and graceful book, Klaus Schwab takes us on a breathless tour of a technological, economic, and social revolution. The first industrial revolution moved us from muscle to ...