Hello 
I've been thinking about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Throughout the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are claims that all human beings get freedom and liberation, and that backward countries develop into developed countries.
However, when I look at the industrial revolution that took place in Britain, I think that the fourth industrial revolution is fictional after all. Through the first industrial revolution in Britain, Europe and the United States colonized non-Western regions.
Non-Western countries that failed to achieve the Industrial Revolution usually became Western colonies.
However, Japan did not become a western colony as the industrial revolution was completed.
Japan, like a Western empire, attempted to conquer colonies and then fought WWII and was conquered by the United States.
Japan imposed an industrial revolution by imitating the United States and Europe, but because it lacked foreign colonies, it was a subordinate country of the Western empire. Japan invaded China in an attempt to become an equal empire with the United States, and eventually lost war with the United States.
Although Japan achieved an industrial revolution and was not a colony of Western empires, it was a subordinate country of Western empires.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution began in the United States, and now Korea, Japan, and China are also emulating the United States.
Although Japan initiated an industrial revolution to equal the West, Japan's lack of territory, resources, population, and technology eventually led to America's dependency. I look at this past history and the industrial revolution.
I thought industrial revolution was a tool for creating Western hegemony.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution first occurred in the United States and is imitated by Korea, China and Japan.
However, Korea, China and Japan all depend on the US for capital, technology, markets and ideas needed for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
East Asian countries are unable to create and sustain the Fourth Industrial Revolution without US support. Thus, it is increasingly subordinate to the United States.
Just as the British Empire took the hegemony through the Industrial Revolution in the past, the US will take the hegemony through the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
In my opinion, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a tool for creating US hegemony, rather than giving the development and happiness of non-Western countries.
Please understand me because I'm not good at English.