The whole society is fed by having much fewer people involved in agriculture (in the US 1%). • Population booms. • Science and technology flourish at a fast pace. • Famines in industralised countries are eradicated. Benefits of Industrial Revolution
• Consumer goods thrive. • The middle class rises. Monarchs lost power. • The society has become more egalitarian. • Military power is centralised. This brings peace to civilian population like never before.
Benefits of Industrial Revolution
• Large-scale damages are done on nature. • Rich countries exploit on poor countries on a larger scale. • Industrialisation requires natural resources, which are to be used up by industrialised countries, leaving unindustrialised countries with vain hopes to ever industrialise. • People are concentrated in urban areas. • War is much more devastating than ever. Downsides of Industrial Revolution
• The higher demand for machinery programming led to the development of the computing technology. • The higher demand for cooperating with people afar led to the development of the telecommunication technology. • The rise of the service sector in advanced economies as more and more agricultural and industrial tasks are done by machines.