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Is Technology Not Here To Help Us?

What is wrong with our society?

Man kills daughter over broken XBOX
A man who killed his 17 month-old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.

Teenager Killed His Father After Being Banned from Myspace
A teenager who confessed to killing his father last month told police he hated his dad for taking away his Internet access, according to a police report released Wednesday.

Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness, MD urges
An editorial in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction — including “excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging” — is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that should be added to psychiatry’s official guidebook of mental disorders.

Man Shot Dead by Killer Robot He Built With His Own Hands
AN 81-year-old man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans downloaded from the internet.

And these are just three I have found on digg.com in the past couple of days. The Internet is barely a teenager. What happens next? In what bad way will it affect s in the future? And how can we prevent this?

Have you any more examples?