Clarke, RogerWigan, Marcus2023-11-280267-3649http://hdl.handle.net/1885/307495This article identifies key features of the sociotechnical contexts of computer law and security at the times of this journal's establishment in 1985, and of its 200th Issue in 2018. The infrastructural elements of devices, communications, data and actuator technologies are considered first. Social actors as individuals, and in groups, communities, societies and polities, together with organisations and economies, are then interleaved with those technical elements. This provides a basis for appreciation of the very different challenges that confront us now in comparison with the early years of post-industrialism.application/pdfen-AU© 2018 The authorsInfrastructural resilienceConsumer rightsHuman rightsAccountabilityIncome distributionSocietal and political resilience201810.1016/j.clsr.2018.05.0062022-08-28