What are the challenges of legislation in times of accelerating technological change? How can policymakers propose, discuss, adopt, implement the right frameworks? What is the speed required of the necessary feedback loops in measuring the effects of the new rules, and how can they be updated efficiently? Are the benefits of the new platforms, often operating on the edge or actually outside of existing regulations, worth the disruption they create? Delivered at the Network Society World Congress in Turin, Italy, on October 15, 2015 - http://netsoc.org/congress

1. Stefano Quintarelli
Netsoc 15.10.2015

2. what's a democracy ?

A system of government in which all the people of a state or
polity ... are involved in making decisions about its
affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives to a
parliament or similar assembly
 Oxford engllish dictionary

Two elements:
 A political system for choosing and replacing the government
through free and fair elections.
 The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics
and civic life.

Election:a formal decision-making process by which a
population chooses an individual to hold public office.

3. the average Joe

4. how voters decide

5. the power of ideas

7. abstract
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What are the challenges of legislation in times of
accelerating technological change?

How can policymakers propose, discuss, adopt,
implement the right frameworks?

What is the speed required of the necessary feedback
loops in measuring the effects of the new rules, and
how can they be updated efficiently?

Are the benefits of the new platforms, often operating
on the edge or actually outside of existing
regulations, worth the disruption they create?

8. what are we maximizing ?
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Public “good”

Interest of constituency

Interest of power group (values!)
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Interest of staff
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Self interest
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Long, medium, short term
 (nn example)

9. what's a law ?

a law is one of the products of a parliamentary wave
function which collapses as a result of the quantistic
evolution of the political state

10. no new news
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St. Agustine of Hippo
 354-430

Theory of knowledge: Two modes of reasoning
 Scientia: organizing means to achieve purposes

"enables man to harvest better crops, construct better buildings,
or wage war more effectively”.
 Sapientia: hability to define the purpose of the action

11. stefano@quintarelli.it