Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?Joshua A. T. Fairfield

-About this book

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.

-Contents

Acknowledgements

PART I :Keeping up: law as social Technology

1-Can Law Keep Up?

2-Rates  of Change

3-Technology Law

PART II :RunnIng on words: law as cooperative fiction

4-Language, the Human Superpower

5-What Went Wrong with Science?

6-Law’s Fruitful Fictions

7-Shifting How We Think

PART III :LAW And the language we need

8-Why We Fail

9-Jurisgenesis

10-TL;DR

Index

-caractéristiques

Date de parution:25 février 2021

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

NB de pages : 306 pages

ISBN-10 : 1108444571

ISBN-13 : 978-1108444576

Poids de l’article : 460 g

Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm