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From: rupp@cod.NOSC.MIL (William L. Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Bad technology
Message-ID: <929@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 18 Dec 87 00:15:10 GMT
References: <8712170231.AA01234@bu-cs.bu.edu>
Reply-To: rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp., San Diego
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In article <8712170231.AA01234@bu-cs.bu.edu> "OAK::BASICSTUD"  writes:
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   >  Technology itself isn't bad, it's the misuse of it. As long as their are
   >corporations and businesses to make money off of technology, there will be
   >problems in how it is used by said entities.  .....

Please clarify.  Does this mean that it is only privately owned companies that
abuse technology?  If that is what you mean, please explain why technology
is so frequently abused by governments such as the Soviet Union, where enormous
amounts of money go into a super-abundance of nuclear arms which siphon off
funds desperately needed to improve the living standards of its citizens.  

(I use the U.S.S.R. only as an example.  One could cite many other cases of
government abuse of technology.  Many times these abuses are not done out of
ill-will, but out of good intentions.  The point is, private companies have
no monopoly in this area.)

Bill
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.........................How's that, Gary?
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