One of the biggest flaws in the current idea of progress is that it ignores progress from all of human history. What I mean is that there is hardly any thought to why we would do something a certain way or wondering how we did things in the past and why we did them that way. This is most evident in new fields like software engineering, where every problem seems to need a technical solution. But ignoring previous solutions we tend to only partially solve the problem, and worse we might introduce new problems because of our ignorance.

Recently heard the term "The Great Conversation" and I think it applies to how we think about progress/innovation. Why are we even innovating and what is the purpose, goals, and results of those innovations, we should be thinking about these things before we pursue anything.