System Glitch: Making Legal Sense of Technology's Perils

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Op-ed

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Deccan Herald

Abstract

A few days ago, I read an article about the disruption at Delhi’s airport because of a malfunctioning air traffic control system. Despite reading the article twice, I couldn’t understand either the problem or the solution. The only thing I gathered is that for people like me, the technology in air navigation systems is a black box. If something goes wrong, we will neither understand how it went wrong nor understand what can be done to fix the problem. Vast swathes of our lives are now hostage to the mysteries of technology.

Year

11-23-2025

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