Essay - The Myth of Progress
The Myth of Progress
Humanist
"Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix, and God." --H. L. Mencken
Throughout much of 1995 we were bombarded with a hailstorm of news reports clueing us in to what a wonderful thing progress is. High technology, most notably in the form of the Internet, is poised to usher us into a brave new twenty-first-century world of wondrous global interconnectedness. Or at least that's the impression given by all of the breathless accounts touting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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