It is with increasing commonality that forensic fields feel the advance of automated
technologies; so marked are the abilities of these technologies, in particular in
the area of computing, that members of the wider forensic community have begun to
question, or more aptly put, accuse, when it suits their goal, whether the addition
of these tools lowers the expertise within the field that utilises them. So the question,
if reduced to its core, is whether technology has brought scientific expertise to
its preagonal state. In a juxtaposition to this problem, seemingly of the modern era,
I have recently been reading seminal works of those forefathers of reason and thought,
often taking my literary wandering back hundreds of years; it is from these florid
and eloquent works that I realise all modern problems tend to possess an ancestral
occurrence, the specifics of which change with the context of time, but whose underlying
premise remains. Moved by the forms of literature I have read I find it an ironic
pleasure to present my thoughts on the seemingly modern issue in seemingly historic
prose; is technology the death of expertise?
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Publication history
Published online: June 09, 2016
Accepted:
June 9,
2016
Received in revised form:
June 8,
2016
Received:
May 20,
2016
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