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Why has human progress ground to a halt?
We live in a golden age of technological, medical, scientific and social progress. Look at our computers! Look at our phones! Twenty years ago, the internet was a creaky machine for geeks. Now we can’t imagine life without it. We are on the verge of medical breakthroughs that would have seemed like magic only half a century ago: cloned organs, stem-cell therapies to repair our very DNA. Even now, life expectancy in some rich countries is improving by five hours a day.
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Interesting article. There is nothing new under the sun. The title is a bit incorrect, I think, though, since it's really more about the lack of innovation than progress itself. But that could just be me being nitpicky.