ASSIGNMENT: “Tomorrow’s challenges”

Preface: In the real world, as business professionals and citizens, it is good to think about, and to contribute to, these conversations, particularly as influential people in your relative arenas in which you will be heard, and be able to help shape our future.

Assignment: Find a topical/frontier subject, perhaps of particular personal interest or from news headlines, on a technological or other frontier, for which one might be led to ask questions about whether existing laws might adequately address these evolving technologies or conditions. Some topic examples might include (but are certainly not limited to): new environmental changes/challenges, virtual-reality technology, artificial-intelligence, genetic-planning, space-exploration and its implications. These are just a few examples. Take any “frontier” subject, and ask critical questions about how we, as a society, may want to address previously unforeseen issues, and explore possible new legislation to address them. You do not need to do extensive research on these topics (though you should do at least some basic google searching). A primary point of this exercise is to raise questions about the subject, and to use your imagination to think creatively, hypothetically, and critically about what new legal challenges/conflicts these developments could present.

Your discussion should be written in your own words, be one page in length (single-spaced) and should include:

(1) a brief discussion of the technology/frontier subject you have chosen;
(2) anything you might know/speculate about how/whether existing laws might generally apply to the situation (no need to do outside research here); and, most importantly;
(3) raise questions about whether existing laws might not adequately address areas of concern, and make any suggestions about factors that legislators should evaluate when considering new legislation, if called for.

You may also use/reference/cite articles as a source for ideas if you would like to. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. If you include language (even if rearranged or modified) from another source, then the source should be cited.