The first Industrial Revolution
introduced machines. The second changed the way we do things, to best make use
of those machines. The third shifted machines from mechanical to digital. The
fourth will again change the way we use things and do things. All these huge
turning points affected both our daily lives and the way we identify ourselves.
Real empowerment isn’t us being scared of, and so avoiding, being replaced by
machines. Real empowerment is us pausing to reflect on what we want our daily
lives to look like. How we want to identify ourselves. Then being in a position
to choose. Living hand-to-mouth and tying our identity to our labour makes us a
cog in the machine. The real Revolution is realising we sit above that. That we
can consciously build Engines to power our dreams.
Powerloom Weaving in 1835
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