When the telephone first appeared, experts predicted that it would promote peace, put an end to Southern accents, and revolutionize surgery. H.G. Wells predicted they telephones would eliminate urban traffic congestion, because people would not longer need to work in cities. The men who invented the phone were even less prescient. They envisioned the phone [...]
Several hundred million of us grew up with the word: “Progress.” John Kennedy announced an Alliance For Progress and General Electric declared that “Progress is our most important product.” Theodore Roosevelt launched a Progressive Party, and his fifth cousin Franklin launched the Works Progress Administration. Our belief in progress naturally led us to imagine a [...]
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