This essay discusses the reciprocal relationship between progress and technology. It demonstrates that progress cannot be separated from technological improvements because improvements are believed to be the result of progress, and technological improvements cannot be conceived without progress because progress is believed to be the result of improvements. The idea of technological progress lies deep in the historical past, and can be found as early as the Greeks. Thinkers, such as Bacon, Descartes and Marx, who gave their support to the idea of progress in reference to technology, are analyzed, as are other significant factors, such as the cultural and historical importance of Christianity, which introduced both an eschatological interpretation of history and a linear conception of time. In conjunction with the ideas discussed above, technological progress is sustained by its own mythology, which extends and perpetuates the idea of progress indefinitely into the future.