"Technology wants to be free", it's plain an simple for the writers Wired. They recently published an article in their magazine describing the ridiculousness of the cell phone law that prohibits you from unlocking your phone. Did you know that if caught and taken to court you could face 5 years in jail and a 500,000 dollar fine? I had no idea. To me, as well as the everyone else who has a pinch of sanity left in them, this is a bit of over kill to say the least. However, it is not all gloom and doom here, apparently there is a group of people called the "bridge-builders" who see the connection between law and technology and wish to close the gap to make technology and innovation able to soar while also keeping in mind the political and safety proponent that comes with every new mass technology. The main issue being that technology is always adapting, always coming out with newer and newer models and faster and faster processes. This to most people is an excellent thing, who wouldn't want faster ways of handling things using technology, why go slow when you can move fast. Well in Washington, "you are always trying to reconcile competing interests" as the article says. This of course makes innovating quickly a bit of a challenge because the companies that have a stake in technology also want to make sure that they don't get pushed out of the way by the same innovations they are trying to create.
In the end we are still behind on our technology laws but with more and more interest groups sprouting up we can hopefully see quicker appeals and reforms to our technology laws.
The article I am referring to in this post is from the December issue of the Wired.
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