The Great Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century

There is a major disconnect between rapid technological change and quite rigid cultural and social arrangements that will not keep up. Most people in the world still live as part of families and intimate communities which provide them with most of what they need in order to survive. If you lose your family and intimate community, you're dead. Or you have to find a replacement family. This was a situation for hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. And you look at the last 200 years and you see the collapse. You can easily imagine when the industrial revolution begins that this will continue to be the situation. But again I think we can try and learn something from our previous experience with the industrial revolution of the 19th