The only thing that seems to progress is our technology
We are capable of improving and making our technology very very efficient within a short period of time.
However, our mentality, our logic and our behaviours will take many more thousands of years to evolve … the imbalance is like watching a monkey with a machine gun or a grenade.
And evolution, change and the future doesn’t mean things will be rosy either … evolution doesn’t mean better from your perspective or some other person’s perspective … evolution just means change.
We could evolve our civilization into a socially minded mutually beneficial shared utopia … or into a totalitarian model where we divide the species into the powerful served by the weaker ones … or into something more equitable … or something far more terrifying … or we just completely and utterly destroy ourselves and leave no trace of our species or our descendants on the planet.