Are We at the Brink of an Industrial Revolution?
“When Horace Jones was re-imagining Old Billingsgate Market, Britain was in the throes of its Second Industrial Revolution – a time of mass innovation that changed the way people lived, worked and interacted.” So said Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, in a speech at the British government sponsored International FinTech Conference. It implies we may be going through the same sort of transformation, a transformation driven primarily by the invention of computer code. The internet has flattened the world. Our generation now goes to chatrooms where rich or poor, knowledgeable or....
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