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Title: Responsibility is lagging behind trendy technology - MICHAEL REDFEARN, The Reco Post by: Mark David on April 09, 2007, 11:00:03 AM I sometimes wonder if those who design new technological devices ever really account for or seriously consider their product's possible misuses. Take for example the recent trend where some teenagers use their cell- phones to record brutal street fights or bizarre scenes of the latest teacher who temporarily "loses it" after being unknowingly baited by students. When these sensational images and sound bites are posted on popular video-streaming websites for the world to gawk at as merely another form of entertainment, then who or what is responsible for the inevitable fallout?
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