# Technology

`kaal:entity:technology`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `technology`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

5 claims across 4 works, 2017 to 2021.

**2017**

- [2922176-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2922176-039) [normative/argued] -- Regulators should nudge companies and their stakeholders toward recognizing the strategic and financial benefits of an unmediated and technology-based approach to corporate governance, rather than mandating further top-down reform.
  > Regulators should nudge both companies and their stakeholders into recognizing the benefits, both strategic and financial, of adopting an unmediated and technology-based approach to corporate governance.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176
- [2922176-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2922176-040) [predictive/argued] -- Companies that adopt unmediated and technology-driven governance gain a competitive advantage in attracting talent, raising capital, finding partners, and above all in remaining relevant in hyper-competitive global markets.
  > Today's successful companies embrace these insights and therefore have a competitive advantage in attracting talent, raising capital, finding suitable partners, and, perhaps most importantly, in remaining relevant in hyper-competitive global markets.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176

**2018**

- [3227967-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-037) [definitional/asserted] -- The Coding for Lawyers course is not about teaching students how to code but about making them realize how important it is to think about their relationship with new technology and with technology experts.
  > It is not about teaching students "how to code," but about making them realize how important it is to think about our relationship with new technology and technology experts.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

**2021**

- [3782192-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-025) [mechanism/argued] -- Advances in technology have given decentralized systems the efficiency they lacked in previous eras, the very deficiency that allowed them to be outcompeted by centralized systems; this is the book's central thesis.
  > The goal of this book is to show that advances in technology have given decentral- ized systems the efficiency they have lacked in previous eras and that allowed them to be outcompeted by centralized systems.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192
- [3782205-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782205-023) [empirical/asserted] -- Decentralized power regulation has been a conscious goal for centuries, but only now has technology improved enough to account for good and bad behavior on a near infinitesimal scale and to reward and punish fairly.
  > Decentralized power regulation has been a conscious goal since the FGth century. To- day the technology has improved, so that it is possible to account for good and bad behavior on a near infinitesimal scale and reward and punish fairly.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/technology.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.