Title: What is progress?
Headings: What is Progress?
What is Progress?
World Progress
Past Technological Advances
Social Progress
Social Inadequacies
What Progress will People Want?

Content: Personal transportation. Most of us drive to work in  our own cars. The social engineers have almost totally   failed to get us to use public transportation. The  failure of car pooling in spite of reserving  car pool lanes for them is especially telling about  the preference for privacy. My late second wife, a Sierra  Club member inclined to environmentalism, tried  car pooling to work (a 45 minute drive) but gave it  up after a short time. She said it felt like going  to work 45 minutes early and leaving work 45 minutes  late. It seems to me that sociologists haven't studied this human desire, and failure to understand it has led to delusions among planners. Foolish slogans about "sprawl" won't help the social engineers herd us. Past Technological Advances
The progress described above is due to technological advance and the social advances that have permitted the technological advances to be used. Technology is available worldwide, but its effectiveness in raising the standard of living has depended on social achievements - a market economy, peace and the rule of law, education and not letting economic parasitism get too much out of hand.