Progress

The Guggenheim Museum in NYC asked me to write something on progress for one of their exhibitions:

2009 had cooler cell phones than 2008. 2010 has cooler cell phones than 2009. 2011 will have even cooler cell phones than 2010.

That won't be progress. Year in, year out, we have cooler cell phones. If it's the same year in, year out, how can it be progress? Because it's not actually progress. It's more of the same.

Ho hum. Another year goes by. Ho hum. Another year where some of the human...