Runaway technology : can law keep up? / Joshua A.T. Fairfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairfield, Joshua A. T., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and law.

Science and law.

Physical Description:

viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Can law keep up? : runaway technology

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I KEEPING UP: LAW AS SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY

1. Can Law Keep Up?

2. Rates of Change

3. Technology Law

pt. 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

pt. III LAW AND THE LANGUAGE WE NEED

8. Why We Fail

9. Jurisgenesis

10. TL;DR.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fairfield, Joshua A.T. Can law keep up?

ISBN:

9781108426121

1108426123

9781108444576

1108444571

OCLC:

1154125229