While the current buzz with the tech media globally is on the Internet of Things or Industry 4.0, we should also consider the perils of industrial revolutions. The first Industrial revolution, started in 1712, with the development of the piston steam engine which transformed Britain. There was a move away from an agrarian society, to an industrial one, spurred by Richard Arkwright’s development of the modern factory around 1770. Britain leveraged the first Revolution to becom