Democracy Cannot Ignore Technology

Democracy cannot ignore technology

Mathias Klang

It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some rights

300

years old

Modern copyright? Based on statute of anne from 1710

Killer app 1710

Latest total rework in Sweden? 1960

Killer app 1960

We have moved on

How we work.

How we communicate.

How we play.

How we learn.

How we share.

How we discover.

How we create.

How we celebrate.

How we mourn.

How we influence.

How we collaborate.

It gets worse…

Lawmakers secretly “dislike” technology

Douglas Adams

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

if law ignores technology, technology will rule us.

Bypassing democracy

THANKS!

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• The presentation can be downloaded from: www.slideshare.net/klang

• More information about me: www.techrisk.se & www.digital-rights.net

• Mathias Klang. klang@ituniv.se or @klang67