The Technological Teddy Bear

I recently found an article that made me realized that the notion of progress is actually much more interesting and much more complex than I had imagined before. Currently, when we think of progress, we think of how technology has evolved and how our minds and attitudes have evolved with the machinery. We take this evolution as fact (for all practical purposes), and we rationalize it to be true, as we hope that technology will work to do great things for us in the future.  But what if we are wrong? What if our digital revolution is not a revolution? What if our "human factor" - our human nature and our love for the natural and the actual - will never allow us to proceed? What if a technological world with perfect living conditions for humans is just science fiction? Humans really love their printed books, Rubic's cubes, and teddy bears. They have no idea why they do, but I think as they refuse to give them up now, they will refuse to give them up in the future. So, yes, in the future, explaining your computer science program logic to your computer may be much more useful than explaining it to your teddy bear (because the computer can help you solve the problem), but the computer will not be nearly as effective as the teddy bear in teaching you about the principles that lead you to make a mistake and the principles that will lead you to the solution.