The Case For Progress :: Technology Technological Papers

The Case For Progress This fitting doesnt scare me. Im tackling it with WordPerfect 9 on my nice, unfermented VAIO Pentium 4. Its way more powerful than that last hunk of scrap, whatever it was caled, yet Im sure its not well as amazing a s whatever theyl find of next. Progress is such an exciting thing. It boggles the mind to think that, once upon a time, man made his way through the world with nothing but sticks and st adepts and his wits and no WordPerfect 9. Are scientists positive t hat those guys were the aforesaid(prenominal) species as us? If so, weve certainly grown up a lot.We overcame nature, for one thing. The primitives did rain dances. We flip irrigation and central heating and cooling. Weve managed to figure out how things work. Ev en 500 years ago, people thought the universe revolved around the Earth. Now we know about atoms and quarks and general relativity and evolution, and prety soon wel have anti -mater thrusters. Everyone that builds on what ever yone before them judge out, with each discovery making it faster and easier to discover things, and progress just happens and goes faster and faster until its a blur, like its supply by anti -mater thrusters and you can hardly keep track of it at that place are a lot more reasons t han irrigation to have credence in progress. Look at the comfort its given us. I mean, if I want pain, I have to go find it. I have to pick a fight or do slow bike tricks until I wipe out. But if I were a caveman, I would probably be covered in tooth s cars, have a spear wound in my bely, and live every day in fear of being brain -raped by a saber -toothed tiger fang. And everything is so easy these days. If Im hungry, do I have to go try to kill something or start planting seeds? No, I just toss some Chef Boyardee in the microwave. If I want new-fangled girlie pictures I just log onto the internet. How did people get more nudie pics hundreds of years ago, I wonder? Probably had to draw it themselves or something. Speaking ofthe internet, how bully an exa mple is that? People used to think that there were other countries that were ful of people who were chimerical or mean or backward.