So here’s to the Industrial Revolution: the time when humanity said, “Let’s crank up some machines, forget about fresh air, and see what happens!” We may have gained factories, trains ...

It highlights the evolution of tools and machines, from manual labor to mechanized processes, illustrating how energy has transformed industries such as lumber and farming. The narrative ...

Quantum fridges, batteries and clocks are brilliant inventions but still limited in power. Now physicist Nicole Yunger ...

Embracing the IIoT will also empower machines to engage on our behalf and to constantly assess risk and relationships. This, he thinks, will take this new industrial internet revolution to the ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the ...

"I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing machine for the first time ever. That was a great day for my mother," Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden's ...

Machines are becoming smart and connected ... He argues that the payoff is not yet here, because, as his WEF contacts tell him, the fourth industrial revolution is just beginning, and leaders are ...