PROGRESS:

What Is It?

Progress [pr-uh-gres], n.

1.a movement toward a goal or to a farther or higher stage

2. developmental activity in science, technology etc.

3. advancement in general 

No more trichinosis!!!!

 

Domesticated Fire

Cheap Labor

Cave Painting, France 15,000-10,000 BC

Pablo Picasso, The Young Ladies of Avignon, 1907

And . . . . . . we're off!!!

"But most of all, we'd like to thank Grog for inventing the wheel, without which none of this would have

been possible."

Name: "Basketball" D.O.B.: 1891 Place: Springfield, Massachusetts

Chicago at some point in the early 90s . . . . 

Kitty Hawk, NC 1903

"Aha--now I get it!!!"

Somewhat Later Than 1903 . . . . 

July, 1969

But . . . Does "Progress" Mean The Same Thing To Everyone?

 

 

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

                            --Russell Baker                        

The Inquisition: The Wheel, Re-imagined

Rouen, France 1431

"Work Will Make You Free"

Auschwitz

"Little Boy"

Enola Gay, the plane that delivered "Little Boy"

Hiroshima: August 6th, 1945

Hiroshima, The Aftermath

"Fat Man"

Nagasaki August 9th, 1945

Nagasaki, The Aftermath

Replica of the Enola Gay, which is offered by the Danbury Mint

Pennsylvania Station, built in 1910 by McKim, Mead & White

Pennsylvania Station, interior

Pennsylvania Station, 1965

Pennsylvania Station, 1965

Penn Station as we know it

Which Do You Prefer?

   

"One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat."

--Vincent Scully

 

"So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

--Portia, The Merchant of Venice

Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central Terminal clock

Grand Central Terminal w/ Met Life Looming

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 

Where do we go from here?