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Pie in the Skye 

The 48-storey Skye Halifax proposal is a classic progress trap. Are we smart enough to avoid it?

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A Brief History of Progress, historian Ronald Wright examines "progress traps," innovations that help some humans, then kick our asses, causing problems we can't or won't solve because we're afraid to lose face and status. It starts with a "seductive trail…

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