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 ...

These are poems that speak to everyone, that pun and riff and make fun of themselves a bit as they reveal something about the ...

The shift from hand tools to machines, rural farms to booming cities—this is the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and how it reshaped the world.

Vaucanson’s inventions prefigured the industrial revolution, during which mechanisation went from being a quirky curiosity to a force that reshaped the globe. We may be at an analogous turning ...

In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being ...