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Progress: Progress is the forward movement towards a desired goal. It can be measured through technological advancement, social change, or personal development. See also Process, Change, Measurements, Learning, Stages of development.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Joseph Weizenbaum on Progress - Dictionary of Arguments

I 48
Progress/Computer/Organisation/Weizenbaum: the extremely complex processes in management, technology and science in the decades before the Second World War and especially during the war were solved without the involvement of the computer.
I 49
Most people may think that the Apollo project (space flight, moon landing) could not have been accomplished without the help of the computer. The history of the Manhattan project (development of the atomic bomb in the USA during World War II - it was developed without a computer) probably disproves this view. If the computer had already been available at that time, I have no doubt that the scientists would have called it indispensable.
I 53
Computers, once they're around, develop their own logic of persistence. The establishment of a bloated and computer-dependent social welfare administration in the US has created an interest in maintaining it. Such interests quickly become obstacles to innovation.
>Innovations
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I 54
It is often said that the computer is "just in time" for solving complex problems. But in time for what? It came just in time to keep social and political structures intact - and even seals them off - which otherwise would have either been radically renewed or become unstable.
So when the computer was introduced to stabilize existing structures,...
I 55
...then there hasn't been a computer revolution.
>Computers.
I 63
There is a myth that today (mid-1970s) computers make the most important decisions that people used to make in earlier times.
Problem: Weizenbaum: thesis: a computer system that allows only certain types of questions, only certain types of "data" and that cannot even be understood in principle by those who rely on it, such a system has shut many doors once and for all that were open before its installation.
>Artificial intelligence, >Strong artificial intelligence, >Artificial general intelligence, >Problem solving.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Weizenbaum I
Joseph Weizenbaum
Computer Power and Human Reason. From Judgment to Calculation, W. H. Freeman & Comp. 1976
German Edition:
Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft Frankfurt/M. 1978


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