What&#x27;s happening today is technological (and socio-technological) <i>change</i> at a great pace. However in order to call it <i>progress</i> most people would require it to be <i>good</i> for us, the people.<p>That&#x27;s where the article&#x27;s concluding question becomes relevant: &quot;How reliant are you on the narrative of progress for your sanity and understanding of our world and its future?&quot;<p>The answer is that to a thoughtful observer much of the aforementioned <i>change</i> is not of the <i>good</i> kind anymore. People are increasingly disenfranchised in the new techno-social environent; the recent upswell of talk about the robopocalypse etc. is just a projection of trends long underway.<p>So we end up with feel-good &quot;progressivism&quot; as a prosthetic replacement of actual progress.