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But putting forward a theory of progress is not only a way of settling a theoretical dispute; it’s also a move with real stakes. As confidence in collective life wanes, progress can seem not merely ...

Terry Winograd is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford, where he founded the Human-Computer Interaction Group.

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