Short answers, pulled from the story.
Christian Wolff presented the first pole of technology as a systematic academic discipline in 1728. He wrote Chapter III of his Preliminary discourse to define it as the science of skills and works of skill.
Hominids developed tools through observation and trial and error around two million years ago. They learned to hammer flakes off pebbles to form sharp hand axes and later refined this practice with pressure flaking seventy-five thousand years later.
Austrian experts established the oldest known wooden wheel in Ljubljana Marshes is between five thousand one hundred and five thousand three hundred fifty years old. A stone pottery wheel found in Ur dates to around three thousand four hundred twenty-nine BCE.
Steam power discovery set off the Industrial Revolution starting in United Kingdom during the 18th century. This era saw wide ranging technological discoveries in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, metallurgy, and transport.
AI is predicted to replace eighty five million jobs worldwide by 2025 according to World Economic Forum report. It may create ninety seven million new jobs during same period.