Move over, American Inventor Eli Whitney, we’ve come a long way since the cotton gin. We are in the midst of the booming Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Just in case it has been a while since you’ve been in a history classroom, here’s a tiny refresher:
- First Industrial Revolution—mechanization
- Second Industrial Revolution—mass production
- Third Industrial Revolution—automation
- Fourth Industrial Revolution—cyber systems and networks
If you need to brush up on your history, there’s a course for that on Coursera—the newest EdTech unicorn in the revolution.
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But why is Coursera such a big deal in this modern revolution? Read on...
