Paradox Of Progression Analysis

For the first week of class, we talked about the paradox of progress and what exactly this was and what it meant. However, being I have not received my textbook in the mail yet, I had to do a little more digging online and read ahead in the class notes to get more information on what exactly this was. What I happened to find about the paradox of progression was that it could be explained as great advancements over past years that were bound to be time saving and help make people happier, but instead made things the exact opposite. These advancements ranged anywhere from medicines and medical practice, to technologies, or even how we communicated back and forth. Relating this back to my life I can easily think of many examples of how this