3rd IR is the last of the great IRs and will lay the foundational infrastructure for an emerging collaborative age. Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and professional and technical workforces. In the coming half century, the conventional, centralized business operations of the First and 2nd IRs will be subsumed by the distributed business practices of the 3rd IR; and the traditional, hierarchical organization of economic and political power will give way to lateral power organized nodally across society.
(訳注:IRとはindustrial robot=産業用ロボットと解釈しました。)
失礼しました、IRはIndustrial Revolutionでしたね。とりあえず翻訳には変更ありません。