It's funny how "progress" is measured by different societies. For example, prolonged life. Living to 90 and beyond is a norm now. Of course, there is much more cancer now than when people were lucky to see 70. It seems, maybe, that our technical evolution is outpacing the evolution of cell biology.
I dunno, I think I'd much rather die at 70 while having all of my faculties about me rather than being bed-ridden and significantly inmobile at 95.
Same with the anti-biotics. I'm sure it has averted tradgedy for some folks and their families. But, when it's used for relative trivial maladies are we sewing the seeds of our own destruction?
It seems somewhere along the way, we stopped trusting nature.
Or, we just started flipping her the bird.