The Revolution that happened in the 18th century is commonly named Industrial Revolution.
But Industry is just the result of a deeper Revolution, the Third Revolution: the Revolution of Broadcasting.
Broadcasting is sending out ideas to the world, in numerous and cheap copies. The first technique was mobile-font printing.
Broadcasting leads to literacy. Literacy leads to many more inventors, explorers and scientists.
The inventors of the Industrial Revolution were not from the rich aristocratic class. James Watt was just an instrument maker.
Because they could benefit from the ideas of Broadcasting, they took initiative and created the tools that revolutionized the world.
Category: Revolution history
The second Revolution: Writing
The Second Revolution was related to the invention of Writing.
Writing is a technology that allows to transmit knowledge over long distances and long times.
Very soon Agriculture and raising of cattle would change the face of the world. Population settled and grew.
Scholars developed knowledge, and transmitted it down the generations and across continents.
We are still reading from the writing of the Ancients.
It changed our world.
Specialization and trade
From Age to Age, from Revolution to Revolution, specialization has increased.
Hunter-gatherers were mainly specialized between men (hunters) and women (gatherers and children-raisers)
In the Agricultural Age, priests, soldiers and specialist artisans were the specialists that did not produce their food.
In the Industrial Age, a multitude of specialist trades developed that did not produce their food and only contributed a small part of the production process.
Specialization cannot develop without trade. Specialists spend their time on their specialty and cannot get what they need to live without trade. Specialists need trade to develop to exchange their production and get what they don’t produce.
Beyond the Fourth Revolution, specialization will further increase. Even maybe to the point where each individual will be recognized as an individual specialist in it’s own self. In any case trade will also necessarily further increase.
The First Revolution
The First Revolution occurred around 100,000 years ago when humans invented speech.
This gave the Homo Sapiens a decisive advantage. Speech is the basis of conscious thought. It is also the basis of creativity because word associations are the first creativity mechanism. Putting together words that don’t fit logically is the start of creativity and poetry.
What about the famous sentence by the French poet Paul Eluard
“the Earth is Blue like an Orange?”
