Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
I think we have to be more forward-looking when considering any legislation dealing with technology.
We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.
Technology is not neutral.