Progress is not alone a matter of technology.

Progress is not alone a matter of technology.”
―C.Drying, Contingent Upon Magenta

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

We shouldn't confuse grief over the passing of our favorite technology with resentment because some digital alchemy failed to preserve analog experiences. Whether or not we admit it, the internet and its artifacts are not just like their cultural precedents. They're not even a rough translation -- or a strong misreading -- of those precedents.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.