Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
Progress is mostly about what does not happen. Progress means a 92-year-old who did not die today, a boy who was not robbed on his way to school, a 12-year girl who is not married to a 30-year old man, etc. What did not happen does not make the news. The best parts of civilization don’t get headlined.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider
Future Narratives
viz.envisioning.io
Takes that aged badly: see this from 1937 the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas get rid of the books!
once we had machines to do labor, we could afford to stop treating humans like machines.