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Published: 16.05.2010.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Do You Agree or Disagree that Progress is Always Good', 1.
  • Essays 'Do You Agree or Disagree that Progress is Always Good', 2.
  • Essays 'Do You Agree or Disagree that Progress is Always Good', 3.
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The second branch where progress is being made is technology. The Technology is evolving semi-independently of the humans that produce it. We do not control the evolution of our tools any more than we control the evolution of our gut fauna or infectious diseases. Also, the pace of technological change is a lot faster than the pace of our genetic evolution. Our brain anatomy is having a hard time keeping pace with the changes in the world that we are making inadvertently with our tools.
There have been anatomically modern humans for a million years at least. For nearly all of that time, we didn’t make much progress on the technology front.…

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