technological progress
Machinery getting better
Technological progress is the advancement of human capability through new tools, techniques, and knowledge.
The term usually implies improvement—faster, cheaper, more efficient—though whether any particular advance constitutes genuine progress is often debated: Technological progress has transformed medicine but also created new weapons.
The phrase carries an implicit optimism that innovation moves humanity forward.
- productivityOutput relative to input
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
- automationSelf-operating system design
- job displacementLoss of employment position
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
privacy concerns · digital age · electrification · tech boom · data security · mechanization · sustainability · integration · disruption · future shock · rapid change · creativity · engineering · Silicon Valley · space exploration · prototypes · cutting edge · research
- Futurismjetpacks, holograms, robots, androids, cyborgs
- Historical Trendspopulation growth, urbanization, industrialization, globalization, migration
- Victorian ScienceDarwin, Darwinism, evolution, electricity, galvanism
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- 1889 Paris ExpositionEiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel, centennial celebration, pavilions
- anthropocentrismanthropocentrism, human-centered, human exceptionalism, speciesism
technological progressstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
standstill · inertia · stasis · arrested development · status quo
technological progressregression
Return to former state
decline · deterioration · devolution · backsliding · societal collapse
technological progressprimitivism
Idealization of pre-modern life
Luddism · anti-technology · traditionalism · technophobia · anti-modernism
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