[calinet6]

"They offer nil in the way of progress, yet act like they are all about progress."

There's some lesson here in the value of distilling an experience to its bare emotional essence.

They did actually capture something of value, and created (perhaps by accident, perhaps intentionally) something that brings an unmistakeable humanity to what used to be cold and technological.

This is some sort of progress, I think. We could use more humanity in our technology. In fact I'd say it could be the next big set of problems to solve.