Binding: Paperback
Description: In an era of corporate surveillance artificial intelligence deep fakes genetic modification automation and more law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons there's nothing any of us can do about it. In this riveting work Joshua A. T. Fairfield calls their bluff. He 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.
Title: Runaway Technology Can Law Keep Up?
Author(s): Fairfield Joshua A. T.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108444576
Pages: 306 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 2/25/2021
Category: Impact Of Science & Technology On Society