Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Good, evil and technology: a fun philosophical inquiry (15 Nov 2005) It's common to see toolmakers, from search engines to development tools, take credit for the good they see their tools do, while ignoring the bad. This isn't quite right: they are equally involved in the later as they are in the former. The conclusion to this is that to do good things for people requires a more direct path than the making of tools. Helping the neighbor’s kid learn math, volunteering at the homeless shelter or donating money to the orphanage are ways to do good things that have a direct impact, compared to the dubious and sketchy goodness of indifferent tool making. Article URL: http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay48.htm Read 54 more articles from Scott Berkun sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Mobile presence - Enhancing communication within learning environments          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy