The Industrial Revolution encouraged more growth and technology. It expanded our transportation services with the locomotive and the steamboat. Less people were farmers and there were more factory workers meaning that owners and developers had more people to work on new technology. It made new methods such as the assembly line, more easier and efficient. The assembly line is still used today. It encouraged other countries to make huge changes that Britain didn't. The huge changes were the new electronics and durable goods. Without the Industrial Revolution, our technology in the modern times would have never happened. It would have never happened because without mass production ideas, stuff like computer and phones would take too long to make. Also there wouldn't be too many workers because most of them are farmers.