Tech is having a moment, and in Philadelphia, the community engaged in that moment is congregating around the city’s urban core. This was the message Christopher Wink (CLA ’08), Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Technical.ly, delivered when he spoke with law students enrolled in Professor Jonathan Lipson’s Transactional Skills Workshop, a course in which students
As legal-snark-lovers know, you can’t do much better than Above the Law (ATL), a website devoted to exposing the foibles and failings of lawyers, the legal system, and law schools. Rapidly becoming a media force in its own right, ATL held a “converge” in New York Wednesday, March 18 on media, technology, and the future
Increasingly, online merchants, together with brick-and-mortar sellers and data intermediaries, are knitting together mass data collection, the interconnective power of the “Internet of Things” and automated algorithmic pricing and selling with their existing retailing and supply-chain businesses. The result of this coordination is that traditional sales functions such as competitive intelligence gathering and pricing are
Cash is a great medium of exchange. It is very efficient. If someone wants to buy a garden gnome at a garden store, there are very few hurdles to the transaction. The store does not require identification and there is no need to pay a transfer fee or monitor a bank account for the funds
Legal academics are in the business of coming up with new ideas and research results, but it’s not often that a research project in law produces a new technology. That rare brand of lightning has struck the Law School’s Public Health Law Research Program, producing Temple Law’s first technology transfer spin-off and, we hope, changing
A sea change is happening in finance. Machines appear to be on the rise and humans on the decline. Human endeavors have become unmanned endeavors. Human thought and human deliberation have been replaced by computerized analysis and mathematical models. Technological advances have made finance faster, larger, more global, more interconnected, and less human. Modern finance