Can law keep up? : runaway technology

著者

• Fairfield, Joshua A. T.

書誌事項

Can law keep up? : runaway technology

Joshua A.T. Fairfield, Washington University, St Louis

Cambridge University Press, 2020

注記

Includes index

Summary: "A Conversational Method Law should be understood as a system for adapting human social technology to human physical technology. Law runs on language, and it upgrades according to the rules of language. So as we discuss those rules and the role they play in the development of law, I would like to do so at the same time. My aim is for this book to be an example of this method. This book tries to develop language we can use to talk about how to develop the kind of language (law) that will help us survive the future. I will try to state my understanding of how things are and how things ought to be straightforwardly. It is important to me to be clear enough to be understood where I am right, and identifiably wrong where I am wrong. But even if stated forcefully, everything I say here is to be taken provisionally, as an introduction to a conversation. That is because a book is only half a conversation. A book is only paper until read, and the reader brings more than half the meaning to the table. If I mea

収録内容

• 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

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

• 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.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC00426394
• ISBN:
  • 9781108444576
• LCCN: 2020021139
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
• ページ数/冊数: pages cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : K487.T4
  • DC23 : 344/.095
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Technology and law
  • LCSH : Science and law