The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is speculating that the proliferation of artificial intelligence will have a bigger impact on the nation than the Industrial Revolution. "This is a ...

New evidence shows that the health impacts of the Industrial Revolution varied more widely than previously believed, challenging the longstanding narrative that urban areas were uniformly polluted ...

Was the Industrial Revolution the most important event in human history? Dan Snow is joined by economist and journalist Duncan Weldon to explore why exactly the industrial revolution started on the ...

Artificial intelligence may rival steam, electricity, and computing—but history suggests its full economic impact will take time ...