In examining the progress of our species, or at least the development of technologies that we have come to construe as progress, we must not lose the concept of a larger historical perspective and the ramifications of such progress when referenced with our extensive past. The advent of the global industrial revolution instigated a process that continues to this day and is self perpetuating. The evolution of media culture was and is closely linked to and vital to the continuation of this process/progress. From the largely print societies that precipitated colonialism and the concept of the "white man's burden," to the current state of global interaction and isolation, media has, in its varying forms, given voice and shape to societies' missions, philosophies, art, and much much more in today's world. The people of the world were at one point motivated by ideologies larger than themselves; this was most evident, perhaps, in the oral traditions of old and the earliest instances of printed or written matter.

The question I wish to pose is how has our 'progress' effected our physical world and whether we have lost sight of the moral ideologies, whichever they may be, that did and should govern human society?