I would challenge this claim. The technologies and platforms described Mr. Dixon describes below will doubtless radically influence — for the better — the space in which we live, move and have our being. However, technology doesn’t magically improve things. It’s not the main driving force, contrary to popular belief. Rather, people are. In particular, entrepreneurs who’ve access to the required capital to take their ideas and inventions from idea to innovation. The Industrial Revolution wasn’t “mainly” the result of capitalism, science, technology, or divisions of labour. The main force driving the great enrichment was the sociological fact of a perspective change: ordinary people could develop powerful and creative ideas. It was no longer the realm of the nobility. Technology existed before the Industrial Revolution. Access to capital existed before the IR. Science existed before the Industrial Revolution (though, don’t get me wrong, it most certainly improved and expanded via a method whose outputs are nothing less than miraculous). But, what we have today, and what will continue to drive the technology Mr. Dixon enumerates here will be the permissionless innovation culture that develops newer technologies and continues to press forward toward improvement and enrichment to an extent that those numbers continue their ascent. But, again, it’s not “mainly” because of technology. It’s because of people’s belief in the flatness of persuasion; it’s not about one’s class or one’s nobility; it’s about the idea.