The Storm of Progress
The Storm of Progress
Jude Castillo
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Marilyn Stanley
, Agnes Marshall
, Margo Beredjiklian
, diana kirkwood
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Schwartz
, Deb Philippon
, Kirsten Lyon
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Noelle Walsh
, Joe Mitchell
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Barry Kazimer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Tatiana Robinson
, Catherine Westerberg
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Karen Kendrick
, Heather Belliveau
, Christine Lion
, Benita Hartwell
, jane luce
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, Janice Cournoyer
, C. Ray
, Candace Fertile
, Wendy Houlden
, Lynn Andrews
, Randi Ann Doll
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Catherine Young
, Kim Cappellina
, Sindi Nika
, Ken Gilmour
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Melissa Poremba
, Lynn Bechtel
, Sara Conway
, Shawna Moodie
, Susan Jang
, Benjamin Wiebe
, Nicole Bawden
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Robert Hykawy
, Adrienne Stevenson
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Claire Gear
, Janet Miller
, Tyra Antle
, Beth Dekoker
, Rachel Edmonds
, Yolanda Ridge
, Sara Erskine
, Paula Ritchie
, Prabh Toor
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Deanna Radford
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Lesley Cameron
editor@49thShelf.com
In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about what's going on. Why is it that what we've been taught to celebrate as progress, as modern history's greatest social and technical achievements, are now threatening our very existence?
Author Wade Rowland writes that the worst of these global crises are the fruits of a basic error made by well-intentioned Enlightenment thinkers at the dawn of the scientific revolution: a misunderstanding of the essence of humanity. In assuming the worst about human nature and fashioning a civilization based on those false assumptions, some of early modern philosophy's most revered thinkers set us on a dangerous path. Rowland argues that by better understanding human nature in the light of current scientific and philosophical knowledge, we can better—and we can do better.
Because we have what it takes—because we are good.
