.. as The Smiths once said.
I was reminded over the weekend about this post by sf writer Charlie Stross. It's a very interesting read on future gazing and why you're even less likely to predict accurately the near future than ever before. Stross argues that once it took 125 years for world wide acceptance of a technology - now it takes 16 or less. Such speed of change makes attempts by the always-catching-up law to regulate technology in any degree of specificity look ever more doomed. Another vote for Chris Reed's doctrine of creative inertia?
A UK-based cyberlaw blog by Lilian Edwards. Specialising in online privacy and security law, cybercrime, online intermediary law (including eBay and Google law), e-commerce, digital property, filesharing and whatever captures my eye:-) Based at The Law School of Strathclyde University . From January 2011, I will be Professor of E-Governance at Strathclyde University, and my email address will be lilian.edwards@strath.ac.uk .
Showing posts with label futurology. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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