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Posted by Ernest Miller on Friday, April 09 @ 14:01:09 EDT Scholarship
Yesterday, I wrote a post on thinking about future technology and its impact on the law (Fascinating Vision of the Future). Today, I found an even better resource.

Prof. David D. Friedman of Santa Clara University School of Law has posted the draft of a book on this very subject upon which people are invited to comment: Future Imperfect: Draft (commentable). From the introduction:

Much of the book grew out of a seminar I teach at the law school of Santa Clara University. Each Thursday we discuss a technology that I am willing to argue, at least for a week, will revolutionize the world. On Sunday students email me legal issues that revolution will raise, to be put on the class web page for other students to read. Tuesday we discuss the issues and how to deal with them. Next Thursday a new technology and a new revolution. Nanotech has just turned the world into gray goo; it must be March.
Since the book was conceived in a law school, many of my examples deal with the problem of adapting legal institutions to new technology. But that is accident, not essence. The technologies that require changes in our legal rules will affect not only law but marriage, parenting, political institutions, businesses, life, death and much else.
via Marginal Revolution
 
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