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How can we write laws that will better enable the creativity of our citizens and to achieve the outcomes we do desire? (Abstracted from http://tim.oreilly.com )

Tim O'Reilly. July 2010. In this panel discussion with Vivek Kundra and Vinton Cerf, I apply the analogy of a "platform" to the concept of laws. "We need to specify less and accomplish more. We often write laws that do not achieve the outcomes we desire, that conflict, that are ignored."