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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.",
   "abstract": "In this respect, regulation is always premised on a selection of relevant facts about a particular technology.",
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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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   "text": "A fact based approach to regulation worked relatively well only under a specific historical condition: innovation cycles were long and disruption unfolded over decades, giving regulators time to get their facts in order before intervening.",
   "abstract": "In spite of these problems, a fact–based approach to regulation may have worked relatively well in the past when innovation cycles were longer and the pace of disruptive innovation occurred over decades.",
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