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Technology, Competition, And Values, Frank Pasquale
Technology, Competition, And Values, Frank Pasquale
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Law can advance or retard the distributive effects of innovation and its diffusion in many ways. Certain technologies merit special monitoring because they promote the leveraging of economic advantage into social or cultural advantage without substantially increasing overall social welfare. Others threaten to undermine collective values and perceptions commonly used to evaluate technology. A final category threatens to do both, creating unfair or wasteful competition while blunting our capacity to recognize its morally dubious character.
As new sectors of life become more game-like and competitive, methods of leveling the playing field developed in sports and college admissions might become more …