The price of a NYC taxi medallion fell from $1 million in 2014 to under $50,000. How else do you explain that besides the disruption caused by Uber. You might point and stammer "but, but, the rules written in the book still say the same thing!" But that's not how legal realism works.
Law is not some magical words in a special book. Law is the way that the legal system shapes human society. Would any neutral third party anywhere claim with a straight face that the New York City ride share system is not a fundamentally different regime than what it was 10 years ago?
> Internet pornography ending obscenity laws? What in the hell are you on about? Those laws changed before the Internet and not because of technology
As an aside, this is straight up factually wrong. The Ashcroft DOJ tried to actively bring obscenity charges against Internet pornographers:
File sharing creating an entire industry of copyright enforcement, far from whatever you’re suggesting.
Internet pornography ending obscenity laws? What in the hell are you on about? Those laws changed before the Internet and not because of technology.
Drug laws have changed for no reason other than the fact that society has become more socially liberal.
You are conflating the fact that society is changing at the same time tech is advancing (btw - both have been occurring for millennia simultaneously).