Humanity gained the ability of flight that allowed us to connect families across the globe. It also allowed us to napalm them.

The printing press allowed more ideas to spread to more people more effectively and to last much longer... but it also brought about new religious wars. (The internet could be a repeat)

Progress is an illusion of perspective but this illusion is always broken with time. Change is guaranteed but whether it is viewed as progress depends on the observer.

Conservation is a fruitless effort as the universal state is one of constant change. Stopping change would itself be a radical change, thus contradiction.

Those that see progress ignore the consequences it brings while those that wish to conserve refuse to see the benefits brought by change.

These ideas are both matters of interpretation.

"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so" -Shakespeare, Hamlet