Editorial

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below is my editorial contribution on our ethics newsletter passed last week.. actually, i'm also a frustrated writer. haha!
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Cool. When I first saw those new cell phone models with cameras and video players stuff, I thought, technology has really gone far. First, it was just plain texts then now, we can see real time videos on our small, handy cell phones.

But like any other technology, that new innovation on our cell phones has this bad side also. Recently, video clips containing sex scandals of personalities such as Anne Curtis, Karel Marquez, and Ethel Booba, are the talk of the town. Those videos are easily seen, copied, and distributed using the said cell phone models that have these video player technologies.

What is the issue in here? I heard from a debate TV show that there are those who blame the said cell phone technology. They are against the innovation because they believe that it is the root of all these scandals. For them, without the said technology, there would be no problem like this in the first place.

Yeah, I know they have a point. Really, those sex video clips are so easy to be accessed, produced, copied, distributed, and spread through those new cell phones. But for me, this case is rooted from one of the major issues involve in today’s era: Is technology good or bad?

In my own view, technology can be either good or bad, depending on how people will use it. Let's take a knife for a simple example. We all know that it’s a good kitchen utensil. It helps us in so many ways. But it could also be bad when it would be used to kill someone.

So like in this sex videos issue in cell phones, the problem is the people who use that cell phone feature to promote pornography, certainly not the innovation itself.