THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Despite the ever-building technological reach and depth of the deepwater era, humanity retained many of the limitations that had hobbled advancement since the beginning. As “recently” as 1700, all energy used by humans fell into one of three buckets: muscle, water, or wind. The previous thirteen millennia can be summed up as humanity’s effort to capture the three forces in larger volumes and with better efficiencies, but in the end if the wind didn’t blow or the water didn’t flow or the meat wasn’t fed and rested, nothing was going to get done.
