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**soipguibbom** · 12-23-2005, 07:00 AM

In my opinion, technology is neutral, it is not inherently good or evil. It is people that use it and have those intentions.

eg. One could make the assertion that email is evil due to email scams etc. Email however is used for good and bad activities. The people on the other end, ie, creating the scams are the ones that have the evil intent and they will have that evil intent with or without email. If email is not available to them they will use other avenues (and indeed they were before email was around).

I think JamesGG is correct in saying that technology is just an enabler of human nature. If you think back to medieval times could you not label peasants with a lot of the same traits we are ascribing to gen Y? Humans and human nature have changed very little, we have only changed the perspective by which we view them.

12-23-2005, 07:00 AM	#1
soipguibbom Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	In my opinion, technology is neutral, it is not inherently good or evil. It is people that use it and have those intentions. eg. One could make the assertion that email is evil due to email scams etc. Email however is used for good and bad activities. The people on the other end, ie, creating the scams are the ones that have the evil intent and they will have that evil intent with or without email. If email is not available to them they will use other avenues (and indeed they were before email was around). I think JamesGG is correct in saying that technology is just an enabler of human nature. If you think back to medieval times could you not label peasants with a lot of the same traits we are ascribing to gen Y? Humans and human nature have changed very little, we have only changed the perspective by which we view them.
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