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Surviving Progress is a 2011 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, loosely based on A Short History of Progress, a book and a 2004 Massey Lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse.
Mar 23, 2013 · Surviving Progress: Directed by Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks. With Ronald Wright, Mark Levine, Robert Wright, Marina Silva. Theorists consider the evolution of human society and question the sustainability of the current paradigm.
Nov 4, 2011 · Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century's software — our knowhow...
79% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood and others weigh in with their thoughts on whether the pitfalls of progress could actually destroy civilization...
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Feb 26, 2012 · Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired SURVIVING PROGRESS, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by "progress traps" - alluring technologies, and...
Nov 5, 2016 · Surviving Progress is a very convincing thesis documentary that leads us to examine the notion that progress is, indeed, progress — that is to say helpful to humankind. In our age of increasingly rapid technological advances, this discussion is timely.
Dec 16, 2011 · Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese and featuring such visionaries as Jane Goodall and Stephen Hawking, this film invites us to contemplate the progress traps that destroyed past civilizations...
Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired SURVIVING PROGRESS, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by "progress traps" - alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future.
Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future.
Intelligent and compelling, Surviving Progress is nothing short of a massive taking-stock and features some of the world’s great contemporary thinkers including Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki and Stephen Hawking.
