Embedding Laws & Regulations right into Technology and Digital Objects; True self-regulation? 08-078
An object and the regulations surrounding it have always been decoupled. The human was always the intermediary between the two. "Use" and "misuse" were always voluntary intentions. You could comply with the law or not and face the consequences, if caught. But many are not.
This "decoupling" no longer has to be the case. I always thought that we could eventually merge the two together ie. self-regulating objects in a world of smart technologies. We can do it at the macro level now and in time, at the micro and nanolevel.
While I have privately discussed this with colleagues, concerning the problem of identity theft; here are some of the first public discussions on the general topic of embedded regulations.
An Ausie Judge indicates that the law will be technologically determined in a era of digital networks.
Judge Kirby says
"We are moving to a point in the world where more and more law will be expressed in its effective way, not in terms of statutes solidly enacted by the parliament...but in the technology itself--code,"
Will we see programmers taking introductory law courses and judges brushing up on computer code?
How will law-making and enforcement be changed by this?
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