Sure, if you cherry-pick what you consider &quot;progress,&quot; you can manipulate the numbers to show we&#x27;ve slowed down our rate of progress.<p>Also, don&#x27;t belittle &quot;refinements.&quot; Sometimes it&#x27;s figuring out how to make a single airplane fly that&#x27;s the easy part -- it&#x27;s &quot;refining&quot; that idea into a global network of safe air travel where the real hard work and innovation happens.<p>Anyway. This article is silly.