Progress

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Progress (history), the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc.
- Social progress, the idea that societies can or do improve in terms of their social, political, and economic structures.
- Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method.
- Philosophical progress, the idea that philosophy has solved or at least can solve some of the questions it studies.
Idea of Progress, the theory that scientific progress drives social progress; that advances in technology, science, and social organization inevitably produce an improvement in the human condition.
Progress trap, the condition societies find themselves in when human ingenuity, in pursuing progress, inadvertently introduces problems that it does not have the resources to solve, preventing further progress or inciting social collapse.

Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, the main venue for the performing arts in Raleigh, North Carolina
Progress Energy Park, 7,227 seat baseball stadium located on the downtown St. Petersburg, Florida waterfront

Progress Energy Resources, Canadian oil and gas exploration and extraction company
Progress Energy Inc, American power generation and distribution company
Progress Publishers, Moscow-based Soviet publisher
Progress Software Corporation, the creator of Progress 4GL
Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center, Samara-based Russian space company
Ivchenko-Progress, a Ukrainian aero-engine manufacturer

Progress in artificial intelligence
Progress 4GL, now known as OpenEdge Advanced Business Language, a programming language developed by Progress Software
Progress indicator, a component in a user interface to convey the progress of a task

Progress, Chuy, Kyrgyzstan
Progress Urban Okrug, an administrative division and a municipal formation which the urban-type settlement of Progress and two other inhabited localities in Amur Oblast, Russia are incorporated as
Progress, Russia, several inhabited localities in Russia
Progress, California, United States
Progress, Indiana, United States
Progress, Oregon, United States
Progress, Pennsylvania, United States
Progress Village, Florida, United States
Progress Station, Antarctica
Rural Municipality of Progress No. 351, Saskatchewan, Canada

"Progress" (song), a 2011 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
"Progress", a 1967 song by The Pretty Things recorded for Emotions
"Progress", a 1980 song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from Organisation
"Progress", a 1984 song by Nik Kershaw included on The Best of Nik Kershaw
"Progress", a 1990 song by Midnight Oil from Essential Oils

Progress Party (disambiguation)
Progress (organisation), political think-tank associated with the moderate wing of British Labour Party
Royal progress, formal tour of the state by its monarch

Evolutionary progress, the idea that there is a largest-scale trend in evolution of organisms and that the trend is toward improvement or adaptation to changing environmental conditions

Progress D-27, propfan engine that the U.S.S.R company developed in the 1980s for commercial and military transport aircraft
Progress (spacecraft), Russian expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft
Progress (train), which ran between Prague, Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic

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