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History of Industrial Revolutions: From Homo Sapiens Hunters to Bitcoin Hunters

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Homo sapiens have become the leading force of the earth by their ability of transformations. Initial hunter-gatherers transformed to agriculture-oriented small groups which finally led to early of civilizations. Civilizations produced more complex social human lives in the forms of cities and states. In distinct geographical areas, humans discovered new tools and methods to make their lives better. In that search for “effectiveness”, humans tended to spend less (force, money or time) but achieve more. At the end of thousand years of this tendency, 18th century became the witness of early industrial revolution efforts. It was defined as a revolution due to its game-breaker or disruptive nature. Besides, it was associated with the term industry, since the source of power shifted from humans to different tools or machines. From that time to the current date, many scholars divide that timeline into four time-zones by considering the most disruptive technology of the time. In that manner, the first industrial revolution has linked to steam engines (using the power of water). The second revolution has associated to the electricity for assembly lines and mass production. The third revolution has been connected to computer technologies forming automation and lastly the fourth industrial revolution has been named with its capacity for cyber-physical system development with the application of advanced technologies. In those four revolutions, we can realize two essential points; the latter revolution has been stemming from the advancements in former revolution and the total time of revolution has becoming shorter. Therefore, it is clear that the effects of Industry 4.0 revolution will be widespread in public very soon. Among all the other high level technologies, blockchain technology which could be perceived as one of the most complicated and ultimate level of Industry 4.0 implementations could be listed as the last but not the least historical advancements for human beings.

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Tinmaz, H. (2020). History of Industrial Revolutions: From Homo Sapiens Hunters to Bitcoin Hunters. In: Rosa Righi, R., Alberti, A., Singh, M. (eds) Blockchain Technology for Industry 4.0. Blockchain Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1137-0_1

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