Impacts of Information Technologyon Taiwan's Industrial Structure and Competitiveness

The Industrial Revolution began in the last half of eighteenth century in the United Kingdom where the steam engine and other mechanical innovations dramatically increased industrial output and drastically change social systems. The second wave of industrialization came with mass production methods represented especially by the electrical and automotive industry at the beginning of the twentieth century. Finally, the third industrial revolution took hold during the 1980's driven by technological breakthroughs in the computer industry.