Progress And Development

The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change – a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place.

Progress (history), the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc. Social progress, the idea that societies can or do improve in terms of their social, political, and economic structures. Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method. Philosophical progress, the idea that philosophy has solved or at least can solve some of the questions it studies. Idea of Progress, the theory that scientific progress drives social progress; that advances in technology, science, and social organization inevitably produce an improvement in the human condition. Progress trap, the condition societies find themselves in when human ingenuity, in pursuing progress, inadvertently introduces problems that it does not have the resources to solve, preventing further progress or inciting social collapse.

Progress consist as a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage:

the progress of a student toward a degree.

It is adevelopmental activity in science, technology, etc., especially with reference to the commercial opportunities created thereby or to the promotion of the material well-being of the public through the goods, techniques, or facilities created.

It is advancement in general and growth or development; continuous improvement:

He shows progress in his muscular coordination.

And also it is the development of an individual or society in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.

Biology. increasing differentiation and perfection in the course of ontogeny or phylogeny.

It represent the act to go forward or onward in space or time:

The wagon train progressed through the valley. As the play progressed, the leading man grew more inaudible.

Or to grow or develop, as in complexity, scope, or severity; advance:

Are you progressing in your piano studies? The disease progressed slowly.

Examples from the web for progress Expand

In folklore the pig is considered an animal of progress because it moves forward while rooting around for food.

The arts do not progress but move along by surges and sags.

Both sites are still works in progress, and each invites you to help it fill many holes in species descriptions and photographs.

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