I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.