Technology & Humans

Impact of Technological Development on Human Environment

Impact of Technological Development on Human Environment

Introduction

Technology tends to be defined as the evolution process which tends to incorporate numerous techniques and methods to serve the human beings. Humans, however, have also benefitted from technology to bring comfort in their life. Technology went through different phases, from the ancient Romans to the surfacing of Islam. The technology has gone through many thick and thins; however, the evolution process did not stop. Technology clearly had an impact on the lives of humans in order to control many factors around them. Humans started to use technology from the time human history dates back. Wheel tends to be regarded as the greatest invention by the humans (Arnold, 1991).

The people used it to reduce the barriers by decreasing the time to go from one place to the other. Whereas the latest inventions such as Internet, Mobile Phones has further helped the human cause to bring moa comfort in life. With the inventions of these devices, the world has now taken the shape of a global village where everything seems to be on the touching distance of a click. However, the humans have not efficiently used it to bring comfort to their life rather used for the purpose of destruction. The invention of bullets to the atomic bomb, the technology rather stands to be misused by humans. However, it is necessary to view the phases the technology has gone through in order to gain a deeper understanding of the subject.

Discussion

In the past two hundred years, the meaning of technology has changed altogether and altered to a vast deal. Technology before 1861 tends to referred as the study of technical education; however, the 360 degree turn came when MIT in 1861 adopted as the new discipline of study. Technology strengthened its ground after the industrial revolution, however, before that humans used different tools in different periods to bring a change in their lives.

Humans had utilized tools from the times when there were no machines, and only stones were available to be used as tools. The Recorded history tends to shed light on the fact that humans began the use of stones, to craft tools out of them nearly 2.3 million years ago and may be beyond. However, the tools used in the prehistoric era were for the purpose of hunting animals and using them as their diet.

The first tool, which human made, tends to be remembered in history as crude. Along with the stone tools the discovery, of fire took the human technology to an entirely new level, and stands to be considered as a significant milestone in the development of mankind. Fire along with itself paved the way for many new inventions by the humans such as the tools used to cook food rather easily. The use of fire also led the humans toward the discovery of clothes and shelter (Brian, 2009). The history dates back this incidence to the times of Paleolithic era when ...