Parallel processing: the private creation of digital "law"

Recent scholarship-legal and otherwise-condemns traditional notions of government and adjudication as being antithetical to the "revolutionary" essence of digital technology. The viability of this position is examined, along with the characteristics of paradigms which are offered as appropriate. The paper concludes by considering what will be gained and lost if law is recast in a digital image and urges that a new dialogue should commence between those who construct the tools of data access and those charged with legal policy.