Many people knew about the First Industrial Revolution and the Second Industrial Revolution. The First Industrial Revolution had centered on the steam engine, while the Second Industrial Revolution had focused on internal combustion engines and electricity.
So, if there were a Third Industrial Revolution, what area would see its major transformation?
In fact, humanity had long anticipated this. Many experts believed that the Third Industrial Revolution would be an information revolution. Humanity's Internet technology would advance by leaps and bounds, achieving the unification of Earth's information. Everything would fall under the control of intelligent networks, providing people with more convenient services in daily life.
Now, people knew that the Third Industrial Revolution was the "Brainiac Revolution."
It had come even more fiercely than the previous two Industrial Revolutions. Overnight, Brainiac took over the global network and, exactly as people had envisioned for the Third Industrial Revolution, began using the unified network to comprehensively reform production and transform the way all humanity lived.
People often fantasized about what the Internet would do if it gained consciousness and became an independent life-form. But Brainiac was different. At first, he had been an outsider who replaced the Internet built by humanity. So after taking over humanity's online world, what would he choose to do?
Of course, he did not argue with people on the Web or constantly appear on television to boast about how impressive he was. Instead, he immediately took control of every electronic signal on Earth, including but not limited to transmission channels for all kinds of weapons, nuclear launch-button sequence signals, factory assembly-line production settings...
Even Electronic Life knew that physical industry was the key for carbon-based life-forms.
Having accomplished that, Brainiac began comprehensively sorting through humanity's network systems to conduct social investigations, preparing for the subsequent redistribution of resources