Bill Gates Meets J.D. Rockefeller

You are about to embark on a study that will contrast two specific time periods - the Industrial Revolution and the Information Age. In the first stage, you will be doing some reading to familiarize yourself with these two eras with an eye towards searching for common characteristics. Later, you will try to apply what you know about one era to predict what might happen in the other.

Use the following sources as a point of departure:

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/4132/info.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates