Good, Evil and Technology: A Fun Philosophical Inquiry
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay48.htm

Berkun, Scott
ScottBerkun.com
2001

Abstract:

Are there good websites and evil websites? Rarely. Most things we know and use fall in between: tools are amoral. They don’t prevent someone from using them for bad or work better when used for good. Great software performs just as well when you’re drafting praise for homeless shelter volunteers as when you’re writing recipes for orphan stew. If we want to claim that the things we make are good or bad, we have to go beyond their function. Goodness, in the moral sense, means something very different from good in the engineering sense.