This video explores how the Industrial Revolution transformed the way Americans produced and consumed food, setting the stage ...

Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Human history, in many instances, is punctuated by technological revolutions that have fundamentally altered the trajectory of civilization. From the steam ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we go back in time for a historical conversation about the role patents have played with respect to innovation, and push back on the myth that patents were not ...

Humans who bore witness to the advent of steam power, the mass production of steel, electricity and the internet could not have predicted, in real time, what a profound impact those innovations would ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. We are at the outset of the next industrial revolution. Unlike the past four revolutions ...

The term “fourth industrial revolution” has been used in recent years to describe the transformative impact that many believe AI and automation will have on human society. The theory goes that ...

Georgetown University history professor J.R. McNeill spoke last week at Duke about global environmental history and the Industrial Revolution. He discussed the environmental consequences of ...