This article is a good, short and succinct summary of past human progress and the 'cost' it's placed on humanity. It discusses the negative aspects of progress by pointing to what social commentators have said over recent centuries about its downside with an emphasis on the latter half of the 20th C. - from 1960s onwards - which by then it had become obvious to many that progress did not come without significant negative side effects.
The author concludes that defeatism and stopping progress aren't the only way if negative side effects are to be avoided and that we can learn from those mistakes but to do so we need to rethink the philosophy of progress.
And that's a view with which I'd wholeheartedly concur.
I have no idea what that might be about, except that it's by the "Roots of Progress" guy.
All firefox shows is a big grey rectangle with a URL at the top of it. Clicking the URL takes me to something that is a long column in the centre of the page, in 2-point type and one centimetre wide.
Some whitespace is good, but you can have too much of a good thing.
Similar problem here (viewed on Android). Initially, a blank page until I turned on JavaScript and refreshed the page - then after some considerable delay the page eventually rendered OK.
(Normally, I view the web with JS off to speed up pages, stop ads and reduce the amount of spying and my usual reaction to sites that play these silly irritating games is to get off them ASAP. Turning on JS here was an exception as the title posed the article as being of more interest than most, which was in fact the case.)
hilbert42|3 years ago
The author concludes that defeatism and stopping progress aren't the only way if negative side effects are to be avoided and that we can learn from those mistakes but to do so we need to rethink the philosophy of progress.
And that's a view with which I'd wholeheartedly concur.
tuatoru|3 years ago
All firefox shows is a big grey rectangle with a URL at the top of it. Clicking the URL takes me to something that is a long column in the centre of the page, in 2-point type and one centimetre wide.
Some whitespace is good, but you can have too much of a good thing.
hilbert42|3 years ago
(Normally, I view the web with JS off to speed up pages, stop ads and reduce the amount of spying and my usual reaction to sites that play these silly irritating games is to get off them ASAP. Turning on JS here was an exception as the title posed the article as being of more interest than most, which was in fact the case.)