I refute it thus

After years of looking at the very interesting cover, I finally started reading John Gray's argument against the humanist notion of progress, Straw Dogs. So far, my impression is that he's just a curmudgeon.

But I'm also kicking a Samuel Johnson style rock to refute his refutation, thus: the DS-10, a Nintendo DS-based virtual recreation of the classic Korg MS-10.  I had an MS-10 about 25 years ago, but I sold it, to my everlasting shame and regret. Now its available to run on a handheld game machine (as played by the Electroplankton Quartet) complete with sequencer and dangly virtual cables. That is very kickable progress.