It’s hard to come up with two forces more unequal in terms of speed than technology and legislation.

One, thrust forward by restless innovators and the pressures of open markets, works at break-neck pace to redefine our reality. The other, tasked with procuring the well-being of all citizens, is built to have stop-gaps and counterweights. One measures its speed in nanoseconds, the other in years or presidential eras.

That’s why technology so often reaches consumers, the streets or the shelves way before legislation has had a chance to catch up. It happened with ridesharing: Now a ubiquitous tech platform you used just last week, for a while there it was illegal and cracked down as such in many states — Pennsylvania included.

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