Show Notes
Technology moves quickly – often times faster than governments can create laws to regulate it. So how do we adapt our lawmaking practices to keep up?
We’re talking to Gideon Lichfield, a journalist and alum of MIT Technology Review, The Economist, and WIRED Magazine, about how lawmaking can keep up with the fast pace of our digital world, and how government and religion mirror each other when interfacing with new technology.
Reading list:
Gideon’s newsletter, Futurepolis. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt Dune by Frank Herbert Karl Schroeder Kim Stanley Robinson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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