The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution. A profusion of new technologies and manufacturing processes, accompanied by innovations in finance and ...

We examine how AI is changing the future of work — and how, in many ways, that future is already here. The artificially intelligent "agents" promised by tech titans like Sam Altman seem destined to ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

Explore the relationship between industrialization and urbanization, and learn how job creation and manufacturing drive city growth and economic opportunity.

The Industrial Revolution flipped life on its head. What started as steam engines and textile mills in the 18th century snowballed into railroads, factories, and cities buzzing with new energy. It was ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the world is “at the beginning of the AI revolution,” and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across industries could bring “probably” a transition to four-day ...

heralds a new stage of the Industrial Revolution, one where machines think, learn, self-replicate, and can master many tasks that were once reserved for humans. This phase will be just as ...

This is an excerpt from Paper Promises: Debt, Money and the New World Order, opens new tab, published this week by PublicAffairs. But the modern idea of widespread consumer credit (in the form of ...