Electronic music has been a test case for the dizzying speed of technological progress in the late 20th century.
The speed of technological progress slowed rapidly at this point because all the geeks were shut indoors rereading the Tiffany Aching scenes from Discworld.
Privacy laws and wiretapping statutes are of little guidance, because they have not kept pace with the lightning speed of technological progress.
So a minimum speed of technological progress is supposed.
Such a dynamic stresses the need for training and retraining the whole set of professionals in the sector: the speed of technological progress enhances the role of continued learning.
"Networks in nature currently outperform even the most sophisticated artificial systems," says Josef Schmitz of the University of Bielefeld, Germany, "but by taking biological principles into account, we can greatly speed up the technological progress".
Technological progress and competition seems to have sped up Facebook's timetable.
We need to speed up the pace of moral improvement urgently to prevent the powerful output of technological progress being misused with catastrophic results.
The growth of the ability and need to transport large quantities of goods or numbers of people over long distances at high speeds in comfort and safety has been an index of civilization and in particular of technological progress.
