The always interesting, if not indeed provocative, Michael Harris muses critically (in the first of what he says will be “a series of texts”) on “progress” and “the mechanization of mathematics” (he even manages to get Godwin’s Law in):
https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/does-mathematics-progress/
"...the notion of 'progress' in its current usage is so thoroughly entwined with technological determinism, European colonialism, genocide, and environmental devastation, that it is a struggle to find an interpretation of the word, applicable to mathematics, whose connotations are unequivocally positive."
-- Michael Harris
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