19 VIEW Point Page 1 of 1 Page 19 of 40 Dealing with millennial angst may require more than moral sound bites.
Many people view the new millennium through a glass darkly.
It is not just unknown, but also menacing, dark with portents of disorder and destruction. It is less the fear that things will go wrong and more the spectre of humans doing wrong that haunts us. The received view is that technologies are neither good nor bad in themselves, but morally neutral, and that it is thus how humans choose to use technologies that should be the focus of concern. But the received view does little to assuage millennial anxiety. We should thus anticipate that technologies of the future will be used to serve ends that are prurient and cruel, as well as ones that are noble.