Emerging Sustainable Technologies that Will Transform Our Daily Lives

Humankind’s earliest technology was stone tools, developed about 3.3 million years ago. However, technological development did not profoundly affect the environment until the 18th and 19th centuries, during the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of large-scale industrialization, where they introduced new machinery, manufacturing processes, and widespread use of fossil fuels. This period set the stage for many environmental issues we face today. Fossil fuel dependency has led to global warming, climate change, air pollution, and habitat destruction due to coal mining, oil drilling, and natural gas extraction.