So for humans, would this mean when you have sex with your wife, you have to think of someone else for it to get up?

While not very graceful, AC is correct in this case.

The advantage of progress far outweighs the resistance against it. War is the easiest and most dramatic example of this - Large, old power against smaller new comer with new gear, techniques, etc.

Your original post says that these are samples of people agreeing to slow progress. Particularly in the case of women employment and wage gap, which was around for as long as human history has documentation, I do not see how this was implemented to slow technology.

"Therefore, the only way to maintain the existing economic pyramid is to slow down the pace of technology until such time as other social controls (e.g. consumer debt) can become more effective."
And who exactly made the decision to slow down the pace? How did they communicate this decision, in a binding way to everyone else? How do they prevent people not directly under their control from innovating themselves? Why did they open of vast information sources like the Internet, and make them searchable, if they are trying to impede progress?
"No one" decided, yet everyone abided. It is the same way with everything else. "Who exactly decided that women would get paid less for the same work as men? How did they communicate this decision, in a binding way to everyone else?" "Who exactly decided that disproportionate numbers of blacks would be sent to prison for the same non-violent crimes committed by whites?" "Who exactly decided that blue jeans are acceptable attire for most white-collar work?" "Who exactly decided that athletics will be supported more than arts and sciences in American public schools?" "Who exactly decided that subdivisions will be built to hinder the use of public transit?"
Everyone abided? Why has the gap between men and women employment and wages consistently narrowed over the past several generations? Blue jeans as workplace attire have an affect on progress? Show me when arts and sciences ever received more funding than athletics.

Thank you for addressing his well thought out blunders as clearly as you have. I no longer feel the need to do the same!

It seems the author has lumped everything that is computer related into one single "invention". This is a shame, for computer science has come a long way and has invented many new things that the general populace makes much use of but has no recognition of it - Object Oriented Programming for example. Kurzweil (http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0134.html?) does a lot of work to show that the pace of invention is indeed linear, but that the effect is exponential.

Really? What an A**Hole!

It's not the money exchange that should concern you, it should be the quality of the products being pushed. Symantec and McAfee are among the worst bloat ware being put on new machines and generally need to be uninstalled before the new pc you just got begins to run like a good machine should. On top of that, the software that comes preinstalled on new pcs is generally useless and rarely used by the end user. Google Chrome as the default browser offers a slick bit of software that will be directly used by the end user nearly every time the pc is booted. Why does the fact that Google paid to get the software there negate its usefulness?

"British teeth" is caused by the bland and generally tasteless food available in the region. Piranhas love to eat, which is why they generally will die off quickly if brought to the UK.

Score 0, really? Mod that guy up!

Hibernating is turning it off, the difference is that it restores the state of the OS instead of having to boot from scratch. Standby puts the machine into a low power consumption state. Hibernation is superior to standby for power savings and equal to shutting it off. And in my experience, standby isn't very reliable (usually forced to do a clean boot when it fails on start up), and resuming from hibernation is much faster than a clean boot.

You are right about taking action while having only a limited understanding can cause more problems. However, the "action" people want to take here is to stop doing things and leave nature as it is rather than keep marching along with progress.