The Day the World Took Off
I’m convinced that we are living our analogy to the Industrial revolution. Call it Information revolution or whatever, but we see the profound changes happening and I think we have seen nothing yet.
Therefore I try to learn about Industrial revolution and seek some sort of hint of what we could expect.
I found this six-part documentary The Day the World Took Off
This 6-series documentary films address the puzzle of the origins of Industrial Revolution. The central question: why did a scraggy little rainswept island off the coast of mainland Europe become the first major industrial centre, when so many other parts of the world, such as China, with its great history of inventions – looked more promising? The story starts on a single momentous day in Liverpool, a day that shows the best and worst aspects of the Industrial Revolution. We then look back 100 years, then 250, then 500, then 1000, until 10000 years – to the third millennium of the modern era.
If you have tips for other sources, let me know.
This article tells about history of corporations — the industrial revolution was a product of a ‘second generation’ ones, and we are on a verge of their disruption: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/
Btw, I highly recommend to add Ribbon Farm into RSS reader :). One of key series: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
@Tomáš Kafka: Gosh, that’s long :-) Will give it a try, thanks for the tip. I saw your tweets of Ribbon Farm and read some of it.