Technology is fine. It's what people do with it that makes it beneficial or harmful. We have had a handful of sociopaths, megalomaniacs and weaponizers of it.<p>Edison on electrocution:<p><a href="https://archive.ph/OvZ9y#selection-887.0-945.133" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/OvZ9y#selection-887.0-945.133</a><p>“The most suitable apparatus for this purpose is that class of dynamo-electric machinery which employs intermittent currents,” Edison wrote. “The most effective of these are known as ‘alternating machines’ manufactured principally in this country by Geo. Westinghouse.”<p>Edison’s logic was twisted, barbaric and possibly brilliant: If he could convince the world that Westinghouse’s alternating current was a swift and efficient killer, his method would be seen as safer, increasing his market share.<p>“The electric chair’s midwife was greed,” Brandon wrote, “the kind of pure, unadulterated greed for which the Gilded Age was famous.”