1. Comparing Revolutions in Innovation
There are two types of revolutions that had made the world change. The two revolutions have a
great impact on the world and the world was affected by it in a good way and a bad way. The two
revolutions are Industrial Revolution and Digital Revolution. In this essay, I will be talking about how
the two revolutions impacted the world using examples and also clearly identify my own opinion of
why one of the revolutions had made greater impact on social.
Industrial Revolution is a revolution that had changed the way of production throughout the world.
The industrial revolution first started in England in 1750 and ended in 1914. This revolution was
caused because the people were trying to increase food and goods production. Before, the industrial
revolution food and goods were produced very slowly due to using ox. When people were farming,
they had to use ox to harvest. Also for making clothes, people had to use their own hands to actually
make it, which took a long period of time. But as the industrial revolution started, people have
invented machines like spinning jenny, steam engines, and assembly line. By using spinning jenny, it
was much easier and faster to make cotton into clothing. Using steam engines have made the train
go forward. The assembly lines were invented in a purpose of breaking the job for many people and
doing continuous work. By inventing all these three machines, production of clothes, and goods
were increased and the transportation was much faster than before. This is what the Industrial
Revolution is. There was a good impact like new inventions being made, but there was bad impact
on the world as well. The impacts were using child labour, and the war occurred more frequently. In
that period of time, children were forced to work in the factory. The work they have done was
usually the most dangerous part of the work, which made lots of children die or lose their arm or
their leg. Child labour wasn’t it. People started inventing new weapons like machine guns and tanks.
After making these weapons countries started to declare war against each other and led to World
War I. So industrial revolution didn’t only give good impacts on social, but also a lot of bad impacts
as well. The industrial revolution could not cover up the negative aspect of war and child labour
which means it wasn’t a perfect revolution in my opinion.
Nowadays, we are living in a revolution called the Digital Revolution. Digital Revolution is a
development of digital products. By this, we can easily think of smart phones, and computers. The
digital revolution is also one of the revolutions that gave great amount of impact to the world. The
cellphones were invented and people were able to call each other whenever they wanted to. The
internet was invented, the airplanes were invented. All these inventions made easier and faster
communication and transportation. The child labour was gone, and machines were doing everything
automatically. This is a good and a bad impact because the machines are doing everything for us.
The good thing is that child labour was gone, but the bad impact was that people became lazy. Now
that the machines are doing everything, people didn’t have to work much. Even in math, we don’t
write on the paper to solve out the question, if we just type in the numbers on the calculator, then it
does it for us. So if this keeps on going, then there won’t be any more developments. People are also
relying on the phones too much. After smart phones were made, people relied on the phone too
much. Now people do everything with their phone. They use internet with the phone, play games,
calculate, draw, and even work on the phones. It is good that phones were made for people’s good.
But it shouldn’t be used in a way that will make people get lazy and rely on it. It should just be a
entertainment or a communication.

2. So as I said above, both of the revolution had great impact on the world. But I personally think that
digital revolution gave greater impact than the industrial revolution. As in industrial revolution, there
are so many good impacts. We know that digital revolution had started because of the industrial
revolution. Because the industrial revolution started, the digital revolution used industrial revolution
as a base to develop even more. But the problem with the industrial revolution is that the possibility
of the war is too high. If war occurs, then all of the advantages we had will be gone. It’s same that
digital revolution will lead to war as well. But in digital revolution there is more possibility in
stopping the war. So for example, if North Korea is about to shoot a nuclear bomb, it takes long time
to boot up, but because there are radar fences all over the space which detects the activity of the
nuclear bomb. So countries like USA and South Korea will easily detect the bomb and stop the bomb
before they even shoot it. So there then there will not be any World War III. So the difference
between industrial revolution and digital revolution is that industrial revolution didn’t have any ways
to stop the war or lessen the damage, but digital revolution does. Both of the revolutions had great
impact and had changed the way of living social. And I think the two revolutions are great, but I
personally think that digital revolution had little bit more impact on social because it has developed
the social and also lessened the negative aspects of the revolution.
To sum it up, I think digital revolution had greater impact because it developed the way of living and
also lessened the possibility of negative aspects that might occur. Once again, industrial revolution
became a base of a digital revolution, and it also had a great impact on social. But it couldn’t cover
up the negative aspects and that is the reason why I think digital revolution had greater impact. As
we all know, digital revolution isn’t perfect, it can lessen the negative aspects, but not cover up all
the negative aspects. So from now on, we should stop thinking about the next revolution, but think
about how to get rid of the negative threatening aspects like nuclear weapons for a better
generation.
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