We are facing at least the eighth technical revolution.

We are not sure whether this is the third or fourth technical revolution. The technical revolutions are:

1) Industrialisation

2) Assembly line

3) Computers

4) Automation (Robots in the car factories)

5) Internet.

6) 3D printing. (Internet of Things), That means the ability to transform 3D CAD images. Straight to physical objects. 

7) Artificial intelligence, which allows for the creation of CAD drawings at a new speed and accuracy. 

8) Human-shaped robots, or General Purpose (GP) robots. Those robots can use the same tools as humans. And they can be as flexible as humans. 

Maybe we should mention the steam machine as one of those technical revolutions. The steam machine allowed the building of factories. into places,  there was no water. The steam machine made it possible. To create giant hammers in the steel factories. The steam machine allowed workers to use the weaving and spinning machines. 

An assembly line made it possible. To make products fast. Those workers didn’t need high training. And they were easy to replace. That made strikes almost impossible, because factories that used assembly lines didn’t need trained workers. A worker who took one one-hour course could make cars. 

The computer allowed. To create CAD drawings that were easy to input to robots. The Internet allowed. To transfer those images. Through wires to the opposite side of the world. The 3D printer allows researchers  to turn those images into physical objects. We can say. The 3D printers can turn. The idea of physical holograms in reality. The developer just sends the CAD image to the 3D printers, and that can be done over the net. 

The human-shaped AI-controlled robots are so-called general-purpose tools. Those robots can transform any factory into a fully automated manufacturing platform. In the future. AI makes a layer. Between the user and fully automated systems. The AI can act as a midbrain. That controls quality. And other things like internal and external logistics. The automated manufacturing platforms. Can make many things by using the same machines. The 3D printing systems. And general-purpose robots are flexible systems. 

Many researchers claim that our society is coming to an end. But what destroys society? If the society's basement is not suitable for the modern world. That causes destruction. The models of the modern socioeconomic environment. Based on the idea. That every person goes to work. In Western capitalism, people work for private employers and pay their taxes. The idea is that private industry guarantees competition. And that keeps the environment wealthy. If the company cannot make products that people want. That means the company will fall. 

Capitalism means. The company should sell good products. As possible. At the lowest possible price. That causes a need to automate production lines. 

So, the Darwinistic idea is that. The ability to give answers to challenges in the marketing environment. Guarantees that. The company can survive and grow. If a company makes bad or old products. That means bankruptcy if the company cannot fix its products or economy. The problem is that robots are taking jobs that people once had. Robots are working in car factories. That means there is no need for human workers. 

Robots are tools. That makes it possible to remove workers from assembly lines. Today, most car assembly lines work using robots. This causes a situation. There are even lots of orders that don’t necessarily bring work. To humans. The model goes like this: when the factory gets additional orders. That automatically means that they must hire workers. Today, the company just bought a couple of new robots. The robot will not go on strike. 

They don’t need salaries or coffee breaks. That makes them perfect workers. And that is one of the paradoxes in capitalism. The company itself is not a social security bureau. The company works with as low costs as it can. That means the company outsources unnecessary people to the government. And those outsourced people get their money.  From Social Security. The problem with socialism was that. There was no competition. And that means that companies that worked in communist countries made bad products. People bought those products only if they had. 

The society. Or our economic models are not yet adapted to the technical revolution that began in the early 19th century. 

But when we think about the basement of society, that basement was created long before the “Spinning Jenny”, the automatic spinning machine. That machine and its ability to make lots of thread. Without breaks. It caused unemployment in people who made yarn. The automatic loom. Made it possible to create a canvas without breaks. At the same time, the machine saws took jobs from the sawyers. The combine harvesters left lots of people without work. In agriculture. That means that those people needed work. And the military offered that work. Those people were sent to the overseas colonies. And that began colonialism. 

We can consider that the basement of our economy was made in the 14th or 15th century. In that time, agriculture and other things kept people busy. When machines took people’s jobs, they were left without work. The reason. The government needed lots of people. Was simple. People are needed in military service. If there were no war. Those people needed work that kept them busy. And the colonies in America, Africa, and later Asia and Australia offered a good place where European countries could send their unhappy people. 

But today, even armies start to use more robots. Outsourcing warfare to robots is politically reasonable. That thing means that the robots remove human casualties from their own military.  

The fact is that the machines mean that the incoming that comes to the companies. It will not necessarily mean. The government gets. Any tax incoming. Those companies that make some merchandise can keep their HQ far away. The robots guarantee that they will not hire any new employees. So, the new technical revolution means this. Governments must find a new way to bring in income. To themselves. The lack of workplaces means that the number of unemployed people grows. Modern technology allows engineers to create products from the other side of the world.