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The moment humanity traded sunsets for schedules and called it progress.
means The large-scale shift from hand-made, farm-based production to machine-powered factory systems, which reorganized economies and societies around mechanized manufacturing.
from Built from 'industry' (Latin industria, meaning diligence or busy effort) plus the suffix '-ize' (to make into) and '-ation' (the act of). 'Industrialization' itself emerged as a term in the 19th century, coined to name a process already visibly reshaping Europe and North America — steam, coal, and factories turning diligent labor into mechanized output. The word is younger than the thing it describes; people were industrializing well before they had a tidy noun for it.
- origin era
- Began in Britain around 1760 with textile mills
- fuel shift
- Replaced muscle and water with coal and steam
- side effect
- Created cities faster than anyone could sewer them
- ongoing irony
- Still spreading today, now promising to be greener