PROGRESS

Since the Enlightenment Era, we have believed that progress accompanied civilization. We believed that as technology advanced and knowledge improved, we would become a better and wiser society. Even now we believe we have progressed beyond many terrible mistakes of our past, and look forward to an ever brighter future. However, the effects of some of our most shameful mistakes still linger today, disrupting the progress we think we are making. Adam Burton describes how the internet provides both information and misinformation and how false rumors refuse to die online, thereby disrupting the progress of knowledge and ideas. Kristin Lindsey explains how technology aids the support of child labor worldwide, thus disrupting the moral and ethical progress of society. So although we may think we advance unhindered into a better version of society, the Digital Age simply hides what hinders us.