4 Jul
2001
4 Jul
'01
6:13 p.m.
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> You can make the same argument for guns, now can't you?
The fact is,
> lambasting any technology because of what it can
be used
for is attacking
the problem
from the wrong end.
That's how I was hoping someone would reply! :-) Please was playing a bit of devil's advocate when I wrote
that.
It's not the
computers, guns, cars, knives or rocks that are
dangerous,
but the
people who use them for harmful purposes. If we
didn't
have
computers, they'd surely find a way to do
something
equally bad, would
then not?
Ask a question about a DECstation 78, you get silence. But
just mention guns, and everyone's got something to say.