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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?