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regressed.

I'd say tech has evolved but I'd say civilisation has stayed the same. as a species we still can't treat our fellow human beings right because they have a different skin colour so

All we have is technological advances. As a civilization I would argue that we have made no progress, and we simply repeat histories of feast/famine, war/peace, justice/injustice because we are stupid animals.

One would think after approximately 6000 years of documented history we would have worked the bugs out of this whole "civilization" thing if we were truly intelligent or making progress.

Technology has evolved.

We now have drone bombings, pager and walkie talkie mass attacks, "AI"-Guided facial recognition and internet traffic analysis, spyware, automation, mass surveillance, firehose of falsehoods delivered via social media, etc...

Technology is rapily evolving, freedoms are rapidly deterioating.

One of my acquaintances is a woman married to a woman, so I'd say we've at least made some advances in minding our own business.

In the last 50 years? I’d say civilization has evolved. More people can survive for longer and people are mostly safer than they used to be. I think “evolved” is a tricky word though, it invokes a sense of permanence to me. Humanity can never become the ape it evolved from, but civilization can certainly go back to previous states.

I think it’s more accurate to say civilization has progressed or advanced, at least according to the goals I talked about at first. To me the basic things that motivates humans to create civilizations are: population, life expectancy, and safety. Right now, I’d say we’re stagnant. Some populations are dropping, life expectancy is dropping in some countries, war and unrest are growing. If we haven’t started regressing, we will soon if nothing changes. Yet still inequality, population collapse, and climate change all threaten to destroy what we have and soon too.

definitely evolving ... up until 2025, now regressing

Technology =|= Civilization

Humans are nice to each other as long as they can afford it. Limit their access to clean water and food and they will turn into bloodthirsty monsters, like any animal will do.

Are we not men?

Depends entirely on where you live I suppose. At best we've stagnated.

Most of what we refer to as the 1st world is rapidly regressing.

It's done all three, more or less in that very order.

Initially, modern tech was a progressive tool, helping immensely with science, mathematics, and documenting history and literature.

Then it became commonplace, everyone and their grandma has the internet, posting their random brainfarts, cat memes and fails of the day.

Now we're digressing, people using AI left and right, while simultaneously losing their own critical thinking skills, and also finding it harder and harder to double check anything without running into another AI brick wall.

Yes I realize your question is more about how tech has affected civilization. Technology has always been affecting civilization, so its done all three, evolved us, stagnated (I think peak useful tech and functioning generally happy civilization stagnated around 2014), and has been regressing since.