"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress"
- Wynton Marsalis
About this Quote
This quote by Wynton Marsalis recommends that our society has actually become too focused on technological improvement, and has actually disregarded to prioritize human development. He suggests that we have actually become so preoccupied with the development of technology that we have forgotten to concentrate on the advancement of people. This could be analyzed as a criticism of our society's tendency to focus on materialistic development over the progress of humankind. Marsalis is recommending that we should be more worried with the development of people, such as through education, healthcare, and social justice, instead of entirely focusing on technological progress. He is encouraging us to take a step back and think about the value of human development in order to create a much better world for everyone.
This quote is written / told by Wynton Marsalis somewhere between October 18, 1961 and today. He/she was a famous Musician from USA.
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