- Felten’s Third Law
- Given an intractable and complex policy problem, people tend to look to areas they are not experts in to save the day.
For example,
Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. … It’s easy to reject non-solutions in your own area because you have the knowledge to recognize why they will fail; but there must be a solution lurking somewhere in the unexplored wilderness of the other area.
– Ed Felton.