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In article <DAupEK.Axy@news.cern.ch>, brome@axnd07.cern.ch (Clint Brome) writes:
> salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem) writes:
...
>
>> Every common invention that we know
>>and most of the new ones have a good and a dark side. They are all mixed
>>bags. They enable new ways of doing things and they cause a restructuring
>>of the ways things are done. Rarely do the inventors see how the new device
>>is used to express power and control and to reshape society.
>
...
> I'm sure other people could, if it would mean anything to you
> come up with dozens of examples in addition to these, but these will
> do for a start.

Duct Tape (a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together)

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