Digital revolution and Social Change
Wealth without workers, workers without wealth The digital revolution is bringing sweeping change to labour markets in both rich and poor worlds Oct 4th 2014 | From the print edition Economist TTECHNOLOGICAL revolutions are best appreciated from a distance. The great inventions of the 19th century, from electric power to the internal-combustion engine , transformed the human condition. Yet for workers who lived through the upheaval, the experience of industrialisation was harsh: full of hard toil in crowded, disease-ridden cities. The modern digital revolution—with its hallmarks...