Runaway technology : can law keep up? /
Fairfield, Joshua A. T.,1974-author.
"Joshua A. T. Fairfield ... provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works, and how we can create the kind of laws that help humans thrive in the face of technological change. He shows that law can keep up with technology because law is a kind of technology: a social technology built by humans out of cooperative fictions like firms, nations, and money. However, to secure the benefits of changing technology for all of us, we need a new kind of law, one that reflects our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Can law keep up? -- Rates of change -- Technology law -- Language, the human superpower -- What went wrong with science? -- Law's fruitful fictions -- Shifting how we think -- Why we fail -- Jurisgenesis -- TL;DR.
"Joshua A. T. Fairfield ... provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works, and how we can create the kind of laws that help humans thrive in the face of technological change. He shows that law can keep up with technology because law is a kind of technology: a social technology built by humans out of cooperative fictions like firms, nations, and money. However, to secure the benefits of changing technology for all of us, we need a new kind of law, one that reflects our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate"--
Technology and law.
Science and law.