The idea of progress (Yann TES2)

To illustrate the idea of progress, I chose four documents. First, I will present technical progress who help quality of life. Secondly, I'll talk about scientific progress, which save lives, thus a social solution. And finaly, I will present scientific progress who is superflous. Progress can improve the quality of life. The first document I have chosen represents this idea. William Kamkwamba, is a young man who lived in Malawi, a poor country. Despite famine and food shortages, he learnt physics on his own. Then, he buildt windmills from parts he found at a scrapyard. So, he helped his family because he improved their lives, and his country, because he became a role model for students, and thus a hero for students all over the world. That's why progress must be essential in order to live better. The second document I have choosen represents the idea : progress can also save lives. It talks about genetic selection. Genetic selection is necessary in the instance of save lives. That can avoid genetic diseases. Scientists can choose babies who aren't with illness and then save life of babies and thus improve parent's life. Then, the next document exposes progress can be also unnecessary, inessential. Parents can select baby's appearance. Everybody would be the same. There wouldn't be any originality, or diversity. Defects and difference are rejected. Genetic selection is dangerous, because that stops difference. Difference is necessary. I think this text doesn't represent progress. Similary, an other text expose the same arguments. In this text, people is created by a machine. That's why persons created don't have real personality. Machines create only comportements, no mind. It's not human and natural to be created by technology. That dehumanizes population. They both talk about creating babies in a laboratory. In the three documents, the idea is different. Progress is necessary in the importants instances, but insessential in the instances less important about perfection.