I think that in many ways, technology isn’t so much ‘progress’, but a trading-off.
We have antibiotics and light-bulbs and amazing communication systems now; but many of us have lost family life and community. We can kill one another in wars now, with greater efficiency and in greater numbers; and our ‘communications’ technology can be used against us by interests that don’t have OUR real interests at heart.
It’s always a trade-off; and we have to evolve spiritually in order to make it more ‘good’ than ‘bad’.
That’s interesting, a trade off? Yes I guess it is, but in my opinion there is something missing. I have concluded that what is missing is imagination. Whatever the youth of today imagine they already have. Is that a blessing or a curse?
I read of so many remakes of movies and reboots of TV shows and wonder can’t this generation think of anything new? Where is the creativity and imagination of this new generation and without it what is their future?
I agree that we have lost community, my goodness, I live in a duplex and share a wall with a woman who I have never met nor seen. Such a situation would have been unheard of when I was growing up, everyone met at church or at the general store, or the post office/stationary/drug store. I am glad I grew up when I did.