“Hello world”

The very first thing I ever coded (in the 1990’s) did only one thing, it displayed the text “hello world”.  I imagine this is the same as virtually everyone else who learned about computers and programs in a formal setting.  At this point, I don’t even remember what I was using to write the code.  That’s not quite as important to me as the fact that the availability of fast and cheap computing has changed our lives, generally for the better, I think.

I’m hoping to use this forum here to discuss how relatively cheap and available computers and the internet have created new and interesting legal and policy problems over the last few decades and how our institutional ability to cope with these problems has seriously lagged the march of technological innovation.  Ideally, I’ll be able to present at least some solutions to these issues.