What is the Information Age?

The Invention of Machines

• Mass production of goods.
• People changed from working the land to working in factories.
• Many moved to newly formed industrial towns to be near the machines which were their livelihood.
• Far from offering a better life many lived in tiny houses, working long hours in unpleasant and often dangerous conditions - the dark, satanic mills.
• Relatively few entrepreneurs (factory owners) prospered.
• Most "ordinary" people just survived.
• Paradise lost.