Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facing a public worried that highly intelligent computers and a new generation of robots are coming for their jobs, the White ...

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 ...

What is the contribution of changes in female labor supply to the decline of employment in routine jobs observed in the U.S. between 1970 and 2000? While typically attributed to changes in labor ...

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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 ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

Economics Professor Siobhan O’Keefe says that technology has been upending the workforce—more or less constantly—since the dawn of the industrial era. We talked to O’Keefe for some additional context ...

For proof that Chicago remains the city that works, one need go no farther than 3410 W. Lake St. in the Garfield Park neighborhood. That’s where you’ll find the newly renovated home for Revolution ...

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of the Nile River gush through Africa’s largest hydropower plant every second, propelling turbines and generating electricity that Ethiopia hopes will fuel an ...

Speaking on CNBC's Property Play, the real estate titan said his firm has “$20 billion dedicated” to the data center space but cautioned that AI's speed of disruption “is terrifying,” noting that ...