Abstract：This article analyzes the occurrence conditions and criteria of the industrial revolution in history.The maturity, reliability and universality of major technology breakthrough that applied to the real industry is the fundamental condition leading to the industrial revolution.Meanwhile, the decline of cost of production, and also the great changes of industrial structure and ways of production organization are the occurrence criteria of industrial revolution.Based on this, we discuss the latest conceptions of the third industrial revolution raised by Jeremy Rifkin and Paul Markillie and then we find out that they are both impracticable in terms of technical reliability, converting the ways of production and applying on the real industry in quite a long time.
王海燕;周华东;郝君超. “即将到来的”第三次工业革命真的会发生吗——对里夫金等人主要观点的评述[J]. , 2014(2): 98-103.
Wang Haiyan;Zhou Huadong;Hao Junchao. Whether the Third Industrial Revolution Will Happen——Review on the Opinions of Jeremy Rifkin and etc.. , 2014(2): 98-103.
2014, 
