industrial revolution
Human Capital, Fertility and the Industrial Revolution
White Paper The Industrial Revolution and the Demographic Transition are the two great forces that explain the upward march of modern incomes. The major difficulty is to form an explanation, which connects them... [25 May 2005]
ICT Revolution: Some Reverberations
White Paper The Industrial Revolution, again, was not called a revolution while it was coursing through the entire Western world, but only in late 19th century, after seeing the effects of... [23 Aug 2005]
The Lean Workforce
White Paper Ever since the industrial revolution supplanted individual craftsmen as the means to get products to consumers, there has been a continual quest to drive time and cost out of the production and delivery... [08 Jan 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The big picture on 'the next five billion'
Comment The West went through massive changes in the 19th century as the industrial revolution progressed, with mass migration from the rural economies to the cities. Worse, the loss to the agronomy of the... [27 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: ButterflyWings.com
Comment The recent dot-com crash is a good example of a situation that has occurred many times before, the most recent being the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution... [25 Jul 2002]
The Electronic B@zaar: Part 1 - the evolution of e-trade
Comment A lucrative trade grew in coffee, cocoa, sugar, and other commodity crops and, following the Industrial Revolution, an international trade developed in copper, tin, petroleum, and other raw... [07 Aug 2000]
Tony Blair's speech in full... (part one)
News But, we have yet to grasp the full scale of the opportunities that the information revolution presents. I see a very clear link here between British science, the development of British universities and the technological... [19 Nov 2001]
'Offpeopling' sees job threat from technology
News Such concerns surfaced during the Industrial Revolution as factory machinery replaced workers, and more recently, authors have published books with titles such as "The Jobless Future". "Offpeopling" may... [14 Mar 2005]
Role of the Software Architect
White Paper With the industrial revolution came new materials, machines, techniques, regulations, etc. And along with all this came a proliferation of highly specialized subcontractors, who handled each specialized... [25 Feb 2004]
Selecting the Right FLASH Partner to Turn Technology Advantages Into Profits
White Paper Since FLASH memory was first introduced, the unique ability to have cost effective, non-volatile memory has spawned a revolution in consumer and industrial products. Cellular phones, personal digital... [10 Dec 2006]
Digital Government and Technological Change: The Impact on Public Employees and Quality Public Services
White Paper The level of change in the American workplace over the past 20 years has forced some to conclude that the changes are only second in scope to the changes brought about by the industrial revolution.... [24 Aug 2005]
Digital Government and Technological Change: The Impact on Public Employees and Quality Public Services
The level of change in the American workplace over the past 20 years has forced some to conclude that the changes are only second in scope to the changes brought about by the industrial revolution.... [24 Aug 2005]
Understanding Languages and OOD, OOP and Frameworks
White Paper So Objects and OOD were a way to bring the standard "components", and the industrial revolution and assembly line, to code. This article gives a good understanding of the basics of computer languages, as... [25 Feb 2004]
India top choice for UK outsourcing
News We are seeing a kind of Industrial Revolution sweep through the services landscape in the same way it did with manufacturing. India is now outstripping competitors worldwide for cost and service quality... [11 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment So far we have seen the industrial revolution spread from the UK to Europe to the US to Japan and now to China. During the past few weeks I have travelled across China and seen evidence of the decline of... [18 Jul 2006]
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