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But progress does not only mean new technologies or highly sophisticated machineries. These are new attitudes, new way of living and new landscape. The natural environment, forests and meadows gave way to urban and industrial architecture. The new pattern of living demands new rules which are of no benefit to people. The square boxes were built for us to live in and we spend most of our lives within the confines of the four walls. And although thousands of people are living in towns, they are more isolated from one another than they ever used to be. The worst of all is that the nature which once was man's natural habitation was moved to the background, and the new reality degraded man to a status of automaton.