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13 Law Innovation & Tech. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/linovte13 and id is 1 raw text is: LAW, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
2021, VOL. 13, NO. 1, 1-28
https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2021.1898298

Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group

Law, innovation and technology: fast forward to 2021
Roger Brownsworda',b and Han Somsen
'King's College London, London, UK; b Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK; CTilburg
University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

KEYWORDS Law 3.0; pandemics; the new normal; the Anthropocene; technological solutions;
disruption
1. Introduction
In the inaugural issue of Law, Innovation and Technology, we wrote a long
editorial article setting out our vision for the journal and its relevance in
what we anticipated being a rapidly changing context of technological inno-
vation, legal challenge and legal opportunity.' In that context, we anticipated
that things in the LIT field would be moving forward pretty quickly, with
new technologies coming on stream, new applications, new challenges for
law and governance, new books about law, regulation and technology, new
reports, new consultations, a rising curve of submissions to the journal,
and so on.
About these things, we were not wrong. In fact, although we did not know
it, Bitcoin and blockchain was being announced as we were writing in 20092,
additive manufacturing technologies were also about to come into the
CONTACT Roger Brownsword    roger.brownsword@kcl.ac.uk Dickson Poon School of Law, King's
College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
'Roger Brownsword and Han Somsen, 'Law, Innovation and Technology: Before We Fast Forward-A
Forum for Debate' (2009) 1 Law Innovation and Technology 1.
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