If you start with false premises, you end up with false conclusions. How is faster travelling a gauge of human progress today? If anything, we need to travel a

If you start with false premises, you end up with false conclusions. How is faster travelling a gauge of human progress today? If anything, we need to travel a lot less than we did in previous decades for reasons other than leisure. We can counter energy needs with green and sustainable living. 'More' is not necessarily better. The author may be unaware, but amazing and exciting things are happening in science, just not in computers or physics anymore (or alchemy, or agriculture, or psychoanalysis for that matter). We have more scientists and better tools than ever. There will be leaps, but they take decades to build up, genetic therapies and brain computer interfaces being 2 of them.