The Case For Progress :: Technology Technological Papers

The Case For Progress This assignment doesnt scare me. Im tackling it with WordPerfect 9 on my nice, new VAIO Pentium 4. Its manner more powerful than that last hunk of scrap, whatever it was caled, but Im sure its not nearly as awful a s whatever theyl think 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 stones and his wits and no WordPerfect 9. Are scientists positive t hat those guys were the same species as us? If so, weve certainly freehanded up a lot.We overcame nature, for one thing. The primitives did rain dances. We have irrigation and central heating and cooling. Weve managed to figure out how things work. Ev en 500 years ago, people theory 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 just builds on what everyone in advance them f igured 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 power by anti -mater thrusters and you can hardly keep track of itThere are a lot more reasons t han irrigation to have faith in progress. Look at the comfort its given us. I mean, if I want pain, I have to go find it. I have to make clean a fight or do mistaken bike tricks until I wipe out. But if I were a caveman, I would probably be cover 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 stolon planting seeds? No, I just toss some Chef Boyardee in the microwave. If I want new 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 great an exa mple is that? People used to think that there were other countries that were ful of people who were stupid or mean or backward.