Industrial Revolution

With the invention of one thing, it always leads to the invention of another; especially for technology. Technology develops as people began to invent more devices that could help them such as for communication and in their daily life. People would always find something new to invent or upgrade. The Industrial Revolution has made a huge impact in the social life. Before the Revolution most people lived in small villages, working either in agriculture or as skilled craftsmen. They lived and often worked as a family, doing everything by hand. Industrialization caused everything to change. The new enclosure laws—which required that all grazing grounds be fenced in at the owner's expense—had left many poor farmers bankrupt and unemployed, and machines were capable of doing more than they could. As a result, there were many people who were forced to work at the new factories. This required them to move to towns and cities so that they could be close to their new jobs. It also meant that they made less money for working longer hours.

Child labor was one of the social problems of the Industrial Revolution. Children of only 4 and 5 years old would be forced to work in the factories from dawn to dusk. They would be paid only a very small amount of money that can barely buy enough food for them to eat. Physical problems outside the factories were pollution. The smokes from factories would pollute the air. Other factory wastes would litter places around the factory making it insanitary for people to live.

The impact of the Industrial Revolution has affected the world very much ‘till today. Lots of people depend on technological devices to assist them in doing most of their work. Some people can’t live without them. The negative side to it is that there would be a lot of lazy people. Since they don’t find it necessary for them to do the work themselves when there are inventions that could help them do their work.

The benefits of the Industrial Revolution were that people began to invent a lot of things that are useful for us ‘till today. Inventions that aided us with our work; that even help us with small things.

10 years from now, the world would probably be very a high-tech place. Maybe there will be flying cars and more new inventions. The bright side to it is that mostly everything would be very easy because there would at least be a machine that can help us with anything. If not, then the kind of revolution that could happen in the next 10 years would be very disturbing. It’s possible that by then the world would no longer be a suitable place to live. There would probably be an energy crisis. We would have less electricity to power up everything such as transportation, communication, and technology.