Summary
The Digital Revolution refers to the rapid transformation of American society and economy through the widespread adoption of personal computers, the internet, and mobile devices from the 1990s to the present. Beginning with the commercialization of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, this revolution accelerated with the dot-com boom, the rise of social media in the 2000s, and the smartphone era beginning with the iPhone in 2007. This technological shift fundamentally altered how Americans communicate, work, shop, access information, and interact with each other and the world.
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