Progress | What is it and are we making it?

We talk a lot about human progress. From subsistence farming to industrial agriculture. From fuzzy telescopes to space tourism. From the printing press to cable news and social media. From small city-states to megacities. From medical leeches to MRIs. But what is progress?

I looked it up. There are two basic definitions. One is progression in a linear path. Moving forward in time. Human…