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Comparing revolutions in innovations essay
T he industrial revolution and the digital revolution have both impacted us in many ways and
have created many new innovations.First of all, the industrial revolution and the digital revolution’s
similarity will be analyzed relating to the impact, especially towards society. Secondly the industrial
and digital revolution’s differences will be analysis which has an impact, again mainly on society, and
thirdly the differences and similarities between the two revolutions will be analyzed and the
revolution which made the most impact will be stated. So in this essay, industrial revolution and the
digital revolution will be analyses through comparing and contrasting to determine which revolution
has the most impact.
“The industrial revolution was a fundamental change in the way good were produced, from human
labor to machines. The more efficient in ways of production and constant higher levels of production
has triggered far-reaching changesto industrialized societies” (industrial-revolution PPT, Mr.
Dorn/Mr. Manfredi).The industrial revolution occurred in Europe but mainly in England around 1750
to 1850.There were a lot of factors that started the industrial revolution. England was in a good
geography, it is kind of in the “middle” of a lot of countries so this is an advantage to go to other
countries to colonies and sell their products which was a motive for the industrial revolution.
England has the most colonies compared to other European countries so England has a lot of
colonies to market their goods. The industrial revolution made many merchants very wealthy, so
these merchants use their money to invest in factories so they would be promoting to invent things
to reduce labor, buy buildings, raw material.So the production would be faster (the spinning jenny to
increase canton production, cotton gin to take seeds out to have more resources). England also has
much raw material such as coal and iron; coals are used to power steam engines and machines, irons
are basic building block of large machines, railroad tracks, trains and ships. All these factors promote
and drove the industrial revolution which lasted about a hundred years. As for the
digital revolution, it started in 1980 and is still occurring. It has another name which is the third
industrial revolution. It is the development of which is the start of the “information age”. In this time
the revolution has created inventions which allowed us to connect with each other through the
World Wide Web or “WWW”. The www also allows us to connect with people around the world, and
is able to store almost all of the information known to mankind, which is able to be access by anyone.
Other inventions are also spread out in a mass production in the use of digital circuits, resulting
technologies such as the computer, digital cellular phone, and fax machine which allows people to
connect, even at different parts of the world.
The industrial revolution and the digital revolution have many similarities which has an
impact towards society. First of all both industrial revolution and the digital revolution allowed
people to communicate easier, the digital revolution has the internet and cellular phones which
allow people to communicate easier (almost) globally. In the industrial revolution, communication
improved liketelephones, telegraph and the radio and these are very important inventions because
these inventions are improved which we still use today. During the industrial revolution, the English
has been to more countries to colonize because of their engines so war is then deadlier. Also for the
digital revolution, many things are controlled by computers or digitally, so to start a war by

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launching a bomb is a mere push of a button and this is a very dangerous impact to society. Also
back in the industrial revolution days, the revolution has made many merchants wealthy so they use
the money to power up the factories to buy more goods so the Politian starts to get involve with the
society. Also when the merchants got richer, the society has divided themselves economically-wise
which are the working class, bourgeoisie, and wealthy industrial class (the merchants). Government
nowadays has also got involved in the digital world and the society. Barak Obama from USA for
example, uses social media to gain votes for their side. Also another similarity is that the amount of
import and exports increased. During the industrial revolution, they imported Indian cotton, made
shirts back in England and export the shirts to other countries. In the digital revolution, we are all
connected to each other that we can know the demand and supply very fast that we can know how
much to import and export thus, it is easier to import and export more with exact values. Also
before the industrial revolution, education was a privilege not a right but then the industrial
revolution allowed more people to be educated, just like how almost all of the information known to
mankind is now on the internet anyone can access it and it is not just a privilege.
One of the differences between the two revolutions is that during the industrial revolution,
they were partly connected but not globally while the digital revolution everyone was globally
connected through the www, cellular phones, etc. Another difference is about ways of selling the
product and different jobs. Back in the industrial age, people had to open shops to sell their products
but now, there are eBay, dealfish, and many more websites (inventions) which allow the people who
want to sell their product able to do so without having to open a store. And this results of a job
opening so now society has more jobs. As we can see there are more jobs today than back in the
industrial days. Research says that there are many more jobs in 15 years which do not exist today.
Another difference is that the digital revolution is that information is more globally shared, and
bombs are now very dangerous which will impact society very bad, as mentioned before even
though the industrial revolution do not have very dangerous weapons and bombs, their war are still
dangerous but now there are nuclear bombs which can wipe out a whole country thus this is a very
negative impact towards society and as a whole. As we know the “impact” does not always have to
be positive, wiping out a whole race can be an impact.
So after comparing and contrasting the impacts of the two revolutions, I would like to state
that the industrial revolution has the greatest impact. Even though there are now bullet trains, smart
phones, computers, highly developed buildings, and many more, these things would not have
existed without the industrial revolution. And even though we have the internet, mobile phone,
computer, cars, etc. these things might’ve not been invented if the industrial revolution hasn’t
occurred. The factory line was invented and/or improved in the industrial revolution which made
productions faster and cheaper so that people can afford it.
To conclude, I would state that in my opinion; the industrial revolution has the greatest
impact.The industrial revolution has created many new inventions that made us the way we are
today.Without the industrial revolution, life would not be as easy as it is today. Back in the early
industrial revolution days, people who worked in factories had bad working conditions and with low
wages which was normal back then. Nowadays things like these are totally at the opposite side
because the worker’s environment will have to be safe, and the wages will have to be enough to
take care of their family, but some of these problems can still be seen today[1]. Some say the
industrial revolution is still a phenomenon, others disagree.

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