What's happening today is technological (and socio-technological) change at a great pace. However in order to call it progress most people would require it to b

What's happening today is technological (and socio-technological) change at a great pace. However in order to call it progress most people would require it to be good for us, the people. That's where the article's concluding question becomes relevant: "How reliant are you on the narrative of progress for your sanity and understanding of our world and its future?" The answer is that to a thoughtful observer much of the aforementioned change is not of the good 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. So we end up with feel-good "progressivism" as a prosthetic replacement of actual progress.