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Metasoftware: Building Blocks For Legal Technology, Houman Shadab
Metasoftware: Building Blocks For Legal Technology, Houman Shadab
Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law
This Article develops a novel concept in information technology called “metasoftware.” It then applies the concept of metasoftware to developing legal technology.
Metasoftware enables users to create the software of their choosing and stands in sharp contrast to traditional, functional. Functional software is the default type of software that is currently produced and includes word processing, email, social networking, enterprise resource management, online marketplaces, and video game software. Metasoftware, by contrast, is not functional. Metasoftware presents the user with a blank slate upon which to build functional software.
I argue that software is metasoftware to that extent that (1) it …