The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization had its way with people and places, no one was native to the transformation of the United States from an agricultural economy to the foremost industrial power in the world--the factory being both the cause and the effect of an act of becoming, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.