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Technology is a Weapon

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Technology can be used for good and bad things.
It can be used for creating and destroying.
We can use technology for making our lives more convenient.
It can also be used as a means of protection from evil.
Each instrument is used for a specific purpose.
It can also be used for committing and preventing crimes.
If technology is used in a bad way it can destroy the world.
We need to prevent that from happening.
We need technology so that good can triumph over evil.

-Harvey P

This poem is a response to hardtruth #91:

#91, we need the NEA and NEH to know how to imagine ourselves as a nation

Hear the author of hardtruth #91 read this poetic response:

Laura Wexler reads Technology is a Weapon

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