[Quick Note] Policy Makers - Not The Qualified Nannies Anymore?

Our central question for this month is how regulators  can keep up with the exponentially increasing speed of technological and scientific progress and their effects on our societies.

Where does it lead if science and technology evolve much faster than our public policies and regulations do? Will tomorrow's laws simply codify today's practices that were created by the great IT tsars yesterday?

We are not the only ones worried about such an uncertain future. Check out a short excertp from Christina Fox's TEDx presentation: