221227-progress

"Man is probably not a machine, but he behaves as such in a situation where the machines impose his operating rules. Indeed, the progress of technology should not be understood as necessarily being the progress of mankind: far from it, they are not accompanied by a progress of thought, reflection and responsibility, since they eliminate their intervention and even often make them impossible."

• gunther anders, excerpted from recent aeon essay [web]

the third way, i suppose, is to cease believing in the idea of progress altogether

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