Blackout In Anderson Ln: How Technology Can Hurt People

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Technology can hurt people in different ways! Technology is bad because it can hurt people. For example One reason Technology can hurt people is hackers. The hackers can do things like shut off electricity and also they can hack into personal items like Laptops and phones and can find out where anyone lives.For Instance the story “Blackout in Anderson Ln.” There was a power outage and people started dying randomly and it turns out that there was a killer on the loose that killed everyone and cut the power. Another example that Technology can hurt people is weapons. People can carry these weapons around and randomly kill someone. They can even kill someone Important.For example John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln.Weapons

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