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Autonomous Legislation
Can robots write laws? Over the last 50 years, we have relied more and more on computers to improve our lives, accelerate our learning, and make life generally easier.
The technology, the computers, the microprocessors, all of this has come into physical objects that have vast amounts of data applied to them and we are looking to improve performance. We see this in air travel, now in autonomous vehicles, in cars. We see it with computer-aided design, computer-assisted learning, and many other areas.
I’m not going to cover all of them but what I want to talk about is how we are shifting with the use of faster and faster processors and bigger data. We are shifting from the world where we handled things ourselves in a physical world to a new world of exponential change and accelerated invention.
Our devices are faster, smaller, less expensive, more powerful, and they are giving us advantages that we could never have had before in the old “atomic world”. Only now are we beginning to think about how this application of changing technology can be used to improve our lives in areas that we had not previously thought about.
