Spirit of technological progressivism

So couple days ago, I came across this image from the twitter feed of Alan Liu:

At first I thought it\’s a funny advertisement from the past. But then, when I think again, the spirit of this ad still echoes in the time we live right now. We still see ads for technological gimmicks like this fridge that can tweet:

It makes me wonder that maybe we always have a blind optimism that technology is the inevitable agent for human progress. Especially with \’there\’s an app for that\’ anthem in the computing industry.

On a funny note, when my son saw the calculating pencil ad, he told me that he wanted them. Maybe he needed it to work on his mathematical exercises 🙂