An example of restricting a technology Legislation limits the use of a particular medical technology. Can be viewed as a means to restrict competition and protect special interests. Four states have passed laws prohibiting the practice of telemedicine by doctors who are not licensed in that state. Telemedicine may increase the influence of large, well-financed medical centers. May make medical care even more impersonal that it is now.
Many doctors support the ban, but they are accused of protecting their turf.
One view of technology is that once admitted, they do what they are designed to do. Another view suggests that society influences the role of a technology society would modify the original notion into a useful tool for everyday activities. The experts cannot estimate the risks and benefits of technology accurately. Therefore banning a technology is impractical. There is also the issue of basic liberty, the liberty to work at what one chooses, to use one s resources to invent and create, to invest in one s own ideas.