About me
Richard D. Taylor is emeritus professor of Telecommunications Studies and Law at Penn State and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Policy. In spring 2015, after 26 years, he retired from Penn State, then served as Distinguished Professor in Residence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa until August 2017. Prior to joining Penn State, he was V.P., Corporate Counsel and Secretary of Warner Cable Communications Inc. He is currently a scholar at large.
His interest is in developing a body of work offering a consistent perspective on how to address future meta-level information policy challenges, from his book chapter on “The Future of Information Policy: Preparing for Transformational Change” (Research Handbook on Information Policy, Edward Elgar, 2021) to emerging concerns, such as the preservation of digital human rights (“Preserving Human Rights Across the Digital Domain”, TPRC 2022) and U.S.- China competition and the need for a new vision of U.S. information policy grounded in robust digital inclusion (“Telecom’s Road to 2030”, TPRC 2021). He has also recently addressed data localization (“Data Localization: The Internet in the Balance”, Tel. Policy, Sept. 2020) and quantum technology and artificial intelligence (“Quantum Artificial Intelligence: A ‘Precautionary’ U.S. approach?” Telec. Pol., July 2020). The basic framework of his approach is developed in his formative 2017 article, “The Next Stage of U.S. Communications Policy: The Emerging Embedded Infosphere” (Telec. Policy, Nov. 2017). He is currently working on policies related to the facilitation of cross-border data flows bridging ideologically incompatible but mutually data-dependent regimes.