Access To Technology Research Paper

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Khaemon Edwards
Professor Larry D. Huff
Class 1301
September 17th 2014
Does the common citizen really need access to all types of technology? Technology, one of many tools which help us decrypt our society, its high tech equipment should not be accessible to everyone. Not everyone will use the technology for their correct reasons. Others will abuse the influence the equipment has within our community. In 2013 a Southlake lawyer was gunned down by three men who used sophisticated technology. These men had surveillance cameras and vehicle tracking devices to speculate their victim. If they had not been able to gather the material it would have been harder or nearly impossible for those murderers to kill him. In a …show more content…

Even though the equipment should not be dispersed it needs to be accessible those who want to use it for proper reasons. For example, a store clerk needs to monitor his store. The common citizen does not need access to this technology, but those like the store clerk need a way to check in on his store. After all, he cannot attend his store 24/7. Our bodies have limits. This is why we have equipment, to do what our human bodies cannot. There are crucial moments in which we need utilities more technologically advanced to do what our bodies cannot. We need surveillance cameras, gps, and tracking devices to make situations easier on us, but as far as the evidence goes not everyone deserves to use the more advanced set of technology. If everyone did then the murder of the Southlake lawyer would not have happened. Blood being shed, loyalties questioned, and trust diminishing, these are all results of the deeds done by the criminals. Due to the poor misuse of modern day technology a life was taken. By allowing our population access to every piece of technology we have we are opening more opportunities for situations like the Southlake lawyer case to

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