Practice question · Multiple choice
Ride-hailing apps ran for years under taxi rules written before smartphones existed. Ogburn had a name for that. What is the mechanism?
Hints
- Which changed faster: the technology or the rulebook?
- Ask why nobody had written a rule about it, rather than who benefited from the gap.
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C. Cultural lag: technology changes faster than laws and norms
Why
Rules are written in response to a world that has already moved, so the gap is structural rather than anyone's failure, and firms that live in it are exploiting a timing property of institutions. Option 2 describes a later stage, once incumbents notice and lobby.
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