The Idea of Progress

In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 303–307 (2009)
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idea of progress   ideas of progress addressing three types of non‐trivial goals or endpoints ‐ first is truth, as approached by religious insight, philosophical reasoning, or scientific inquiry   Science and technology ‐ offering a stable frame of reference from which directional change – progress – could be recognized and measured   scientific truth does make itself strongly felt in human affairs – not as truth qua truth, but through its embodiment in technology   technology's evolution through time moving away from simplicity, transparency, closedness and discreteness toward complexity, inaccessibility, ubiquity, interconnectedness   technological change ‐ creating losers as well as winners, whose jobs and skills are displaced by machines with enhanced functionality and autonomy   idea of progress ‐ carrying with it an inherent contestability, a commitment to progress bound up in human action

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