Green Technology Innovations

The Fourth Industrial Revolution And The Advance Of Technological Innovation

Before talking about the fourth industrial revolution, it is pertinent to define the word revolution which comes from the Latin revolution, which is the action and effect of causing a radical change (Real Academia Española, 2023). In this sense, the term Industrial Revolution emerged at the beginning of the 19th century; Bezancon claims to have found it in writings of the Elboeuf Chamber of Commerce in 1806 (Otero & de Grossi, 1998).

Southcliffe in his book “The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830” mentions that the term Industrial Revolution refers to changes not only industrial, but also social and intellectual (Otero & de Grossi, 1998). Different authors agree that the term industrial omits economic and social changes, and even consider that instead of a revolution it was an accelerated evolution (Blanco, Castro, Gayoso, & Santana, 2020; Useche, Juarez, & Ramirez, 2022) Landes (1979), mentions that the term Industrial Revolution usually refers to the complex of technological innovations that, by replacing human skill with machinery and human and animal strength with mechanical energy, causes the transition from artisanal to factory production thus giving rise to the birth of the modern economy.