Topic: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
5. The technology evolves a lot faster than the law. This is the primary challenge of tech policy formulation and the problem we most urgently need to solve. Discuss. (250 words)
Reference: Live Mint
Why the question:
Lawmakers are generally slow to move, taking their time to consider all the consequences of their decisions before enacting regulations. In comparison, technology is always changing—transforming itself, sometimes in a matter of months.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about the quick pace of evolution of technology which makes the law redundant and the need for the tech policy to acknowledge it in order to solve it.
Directive:
Discuss – This is an all-encompassing directive – you have to debate on paper by going through the details of the issues concerned by examining each one of them. You have to give reasons for both for and against arguments.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
To write about the quick pace of evolution of technology which makes the law redundant or play catch up with technology.
Body:
Write about the impact in regulation of fast evolving technology. From economists, social scientists and technologists, or anyone with the requisite experience to give them inputs so that they can apply an appropriate level of nuance to their regulations.
Write about the how tech policies can be made more organic and responsive to the present times. Parameters for regulation and design-thinking to formulate policymaking tools, principles-based regulation that allows for regulatory discretion, improve enforcement and build transparency etc.
Conclusion:
Conclude with a way forward.
