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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.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.