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  • The third industrial revolution

    The third industrial revolutionThe digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made—and change the politics of jobs too THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers' cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory

    The third industrial revolution
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    clicklog 2012/05/16
    "Rolls-Royce no longer sells jet engines; it sells the hours that each engine is actually thrusting an aeroplane through the sky. " Whoa. I had no idea about this.
  • The Fukushima black box

    The Fukushima black boxA dangerous lack of urgency in drawing lessons from Japan’s nuclear disaster THERE is a breathtaking serenity to the valley that winds from the town of Namie, on the coast of Fukushima prefecture, into the hills above. A narrow road runs by a river that passes through steep ravines, studded with maples. Lovely it may be, but it is the last place where you would want to see a

    The Fukushima black box
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    clicklog 2012/05/02
    "It was not until a New York Times report in August that many of the evacuees realised they had been exposed to such a danger, thanks to government neglect." The report by New York Times must be this. Anger in Japan Over Withheld Radiation Forecasts - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/wo
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