Technological revolutionsThere are seven key components to each technological revolution:Core conversion: a new capability that transforms one form of value into another. Each technological revolution is also a bridge to the next revolution, in that its innovations enable the next one to thrive. Revolution Core conversion Scaling infrastructure Spatiotemporal compression Key resources Economic mode Centralization/decentralization arc Administrative innovations Enables next Agricultural (ca. It is common for a technological revolution to centralize the core conversion initially to make it more efficient and scalable. While that is an immense welfare gain, it does not constitute a new technological revolution in this framework: there is no new value conversion.