The Uncertain Future of Smart Contracts
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The Uncertain Future of Smart Contracts. / Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo; Fenwick, Mark; Wrbka, Stefan.
Smart Contracts: Technological, Business and Legal Perspectives. 1st. ed. London : Hart Publishing, 2021. p. 181-194.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Uncertain Future of Smart Contracts
AU - Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo
AU - Fenwick, Mark
AU - Wrbka, Stefan
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In the context of the exponential growth of new technologies, any attempt to think about the future becomes enormously challenging. The conventional modern hope that we might learn from past experience and, by doing so, anticipate or otherwise predict future trends has faded due to the cognitive and normative uncertainties that surround today’s technology. As such, ‘prediction’ becomes much harder in an era of fast-paced, technology-driven economic, social and cultural changes. Things move so quickly, often in unknowable directions, leaving us incapable of even grasping the present, let alone identifying a trajectory that can form the basis for any reliable predictions about where we might be going. In thinking about an indeterminate present and undecidable future, we need to combine imagination (everyone is now in the business of science fiction) with the realisation that our predictions are very likely to be proven wrong....
AB - In the context of the exponential growth of new technologies, any attempt to think about the future becomes enormously challenging. The conventional modern hope that we might learn from past experience and, by doing so, anticipate or otherwise predict future trends has faded due to the cognitive and normative uncertainties that surround today’s technology. As such, ‘prediction’ becomes much harder in an era of fast-paced, technology-driven economic, social and cultural changes. Things move so quickly, often in unknowable directions, leaving us incapable of even grasping the present, let alone identifying a trajectory that can form the basis for any reliable predictions about where we might be going. In thinking about an indeterminate present and undecidable future, we need to combine imagination (everyone is now in the business of science fiction) with the realisation that our predictions are very likely to be proven wrong....
U2 - 10.5040/9781509937059.ch-009
DO - 10.5040/9781509937059.ch-009
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781509937028
SP - 181
EP - 194
BT - Smart Contracts
PB - Hart Publishing
CY - London
ER -
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