What are the Security Risks for Law Firms Using Windows 10?
Robert Rutherford takes a positive view of the new Microsoft operating system…
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Technology, Society & Justice
Technology Law Futures Conference – Evening Keynote Report
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote at the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference. This article previously appeared as a news item on the site….
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Editorial
This issue includes a number of articles that arise from or are inspired by the SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, which was hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills in June. I hope that the next issue of the magazine will have further material arising from that Conference. I am grateful to those involved and…
Cloud, Patents and Semantics
Why do patent professionals spend so much time trying to find the right words to describe an invention? Nick Reeve shows how the story of cloud computing technology, and the words used to describe it, provide an explanation….
Robots in the UK
In another in our series of articles inspired by the recent SCL Technology Law Futures Conference, Rob Buckingham looks at the reality of developments in the UK concerning robotics and autonomous systems, in the context of the coming explosion in the applications of AI…
Regulation, and all that…
Roger Bickerstaff sees a need for Tech lawyers to get more involved in the development of the regulation that affects their core work…
Smart City, Surveillance City
Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
From Transition Towns to Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges
The principles which underpin the Smart Cities initiatives are rarely seen as applicable to smaller communities but, as Branka Dimitrijevic shows, they are often equally valid in such contexts…
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Editorial
Special Focus The focus of this issue is Smart Cities. We have nine articles taking different stances on the topic. All of this was inspired by an event held in Glasgow at the end of March, Designing Smart Cities – opportunities and regulatory challenges (jointly organised by CREATe, Horizon and Strathclyde University). A full resource…
SCL Event Report: Technology Law Futures Conference – Evening Keynote
Flora Blackett-Ord reports on the talk from Dylan Evans on ‘The Great AI Swindle’ which was the evening keynote for the latest SCL Technology Law Futures Conference…
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