>that techno-optimism has aged very badly, after all There is no way that the kind of progress that happened in the last 60 years doesn't make it into the hist

>that techno-optimism has aged very badly, after all There is no way that the kind of progress that happened in the last 60 years doesn't make it into the history books for centuries, very probably millenia. I'm just utterly lost as to how someone can actually say this, I could bring up numbers on hunger, or child mortality, or the enormous, mind-boggling in degree, improvements in the quality of life of the average person, or how absolutely crazy the concept of taking progress for granted is. It'd be easier to convince me that grass is blue.