FOUR Stages of the Industrial Revolution presented by Cathy Snyder

1. Machines, Steel & Iron , Mining Coal ,Assembly Lines Morse Code

2. STAGE 1- AGRICULTURAL

3. Target & Whole Foods deployed machine learning to make deliveries more precise /help price products more effectively.

4. Fourth Wave expected to see heavy implementation of several emerging technologies with high potential of disruptive effects.

4.1. * Disruption to jobs & skills

4.2. Innovation & productivity

5. Adding a broader role for advances in Biological technologies

5.1. Amazon/Whole Foods Acquisition

6. Breakthrough in number of fields - Robotics, artificial intelligence (AI)- (Watson) , block chain, nanotechnology, quantum computing.

7. STAGE 4 : known as 4IR major industrial era since the initial industrial revolution.

8. 5 Technology Trends

8.1. 1) Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2) Voice Ordering ( Amazon Go) 3) Block Chain (Bitcoin) 4) Rapid Checkout (virtual cart) 5) Mobile App Enhancements (just walk out technology )

9. Innovations including Steel Mills ,Textiles &Manufacturing Improve systems of transportation Communication & Baking

9.1. Steel Mills Refrigerators Typewriters Telephones Elevator Washing Machine

10. Stage 2 Technical Revolution

10.1. Trains/Steamboats

11. 3D Printing,biotechnology, space research & automation

11.1. Travel Agencies- Banking

12. STAGE 3 Manufacturing going digital