There is no single factor in human life more important than technology and yet most users have little or no idea of how most technologies work or even that their own bodies are sophisticated collections of technological systems. Progress, in the sense of something improving over time , would be without examples or illustrations of any kind. Only technological progress seems to keep marching on while getting more powerful all the time. If it were not for technology, human culture would probably never change at all.
Human culture is all about technology.
We are living in a time of unprecedented rapidity of technical development and we do not know where it is taking us. Socially our species operates on very primitive assumptions about how to live and survive while technologically our species is acquiring powers the average person can't begin to imagine . This is a prescription for disaster. The physical vehicles of all life-forms are comprised of interdependent systems of highly sophisticated technologies. It seems probable that the Universe as a whole is a living entity and, therefore, it too would have to be technologically organized.