WordNet
n. the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation [syn: industrial revolution]
Wikipedia
Technological revolution is, in general, a relatively not long period in history when one technology (or better a set of technologies) is replaced by another technology (or by the set of technologies). As Nick Bostrom wrote: “We might define a technological revolution as a dramatic change brought about relatively quickly by the introduction of some new technology.” It is an era of an accelerated technological progress characterized not only by new innovations but also their application and diffusion.
A difference between technological revolution and technological change is not clearly defined. The technological change we could see as an introduction of an individual (single) new technology, while the technological revolution as a period in which more new technologies are adopted at the almost same time. These new technologies or technological changes are usually interconnected - as 3rd Kranzberg's law of technology says: "Technology comes in packages, big and small."
Usage examples of "technological revolution".
We are simultaneously experiencing a youth revolution, a sexual revolution, a racial revolution, a colonial revolution, an economic revolution, and the most rapid and deep-going technological revolution in history.
The technological revolution in which our tools became so fast and so interpretive that the average man or woman could hold the indexed library of ancient Alexandria on their desks and call it up with a few keyed commands.
We now are entering the post-technological revolution in which man and machine are less separate and where, in the end, they may become one.
We are having a major technological revolution in America just now.
This world might, I thought, be on the verge of some technological revolution.
Remember that the benefits of our technological revolution have not yet reached the home Government.
The entire world was poised on the edge of a technological revolution that would match or exceed the impact of the Reformation.