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The Five Technology Cycles:

The information is presented from a structural perspective.

The five cycles, periods, and phases are outlined showing the common impacts, and the changes created by the structural elements.

Therefore, the common impacts are listed and gone through for all five technology cycles.

This is the most straightforward way to illuminate how repetitive these cycles have always been.

The periods and phases correspond to Carlota Perez’s technological cycle breakthrough framework.

The Structural Impact views follow

Disruptions Dawn:

From Steam to Silicon presented structurally.

This framework meticulously analyzes five pivotal “Big Bang” events—Arkwright’s textile revolution, Stephenson’s railway empire, Carnegie’s steel transformation, Ford’s automotive breakthrough, and the IBM Intel computing explosion—to uncover the ten critical dimensions that determine whether an innovation becomes a footnote or a force of nature.

Brian Arthur revealed how innovations emerge from complex ecosystems with intricate technological lineages. Carlota Perez mapped the grand cycles of technological transformation that constantly remake civilization.

Applying Arthur’s and Perez’s logic, this book identifies ten critical dimensions that revolutionary innovations have in common.

This book analyzed the history and found ten common dynamics that underpin Perez and Arthur’s frameworks. The interlocking feedback loops are brought into clear view.

Enter: Disruptions Dawn

The Five Technology Cycles:

The five technology cycles presented chronologically.

The periods and phases are outlined, beginning with the first technology cycle, and then laid out linearly, moving through the four succeeding technology cycles. The periods and phases all correspond to Carlota Perez’s breakthrough framework for technology cycles.

The Linear – Chronological Views

The Evolution of the Models/Frameworks

The thinking was produced under very unusual conditions. However, it has been built out to levels both George Box and Brian Arthur would describe as useful. Actually, Brian Arthur has already endorsed Perez’s framework.

The history of how the thinking evolved to where we are today

Section One – the early days . . .