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   "text": "The obstacles preventing consumers and entrepreneurs from accessing a workable new technology are frequently not technological limits but human choices embodied in law: legal and regulatory rules prohibit or limit commercial exploitation of, and public access to, new technology.",
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   "text": "Regulation is never grounded in the full set of facts about a technology; it is always premised on a prior selection of the facts that regulators themselves treat as relevant when deciding what, when, and how to intervene.",
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   "text": "The relevant facts on which regulation rests are never going to be obvious or settled, so the regulation of any disruptive new technology will always be reactive and built on an uncertain and politicized factual basis.",
   "abstract": "In this respect, the \"relevant facts\" that form the basis of regulation are never going to be obvious or settled. The regulation of any disruptive new technology is always going to be reactive and based on an uncertain and politicized factual basis.",
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