“How Does the Evolution of ICTs Change the Law? An Approach to Law Through the Philosophy of Information of Luciano Floridi”

The evolution of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is progressively changing the environment we live in. Such evolution is going to bring about a convergence between the physical and the virtual reality (e.g. the phenomenon of cloud computing) and the creation of a new environment, i.e., the infosphere. We believe the evolution of ICTs is likely to affect the conception of law in many ways: above all, it changes the reality that law is meant to govern, since it changes the notion of space we live in. This does not only mean that we move from a State-regulation to a self-regulation: this may be true but is the starting point of our reasoning and not the ending point. There is a major turn at stake: our normative mind-set towards the stability of the world. Our normative beliefs (i.e., what we believe it is stable) will be no longer regulated and based only on the common perception of a physical reality but, first and foremost, on the shared reliance upon a reality made of information.