ABSTRACT
This chapter speculates about the future directions of property regimes and how new technologies of accounting and greater societal changes like climate change are reconfiguring how to own, what to own, how to manage and distribute property. Probability is also central to property. In the lawyers' refrain, property is a relationship among persons with respect to things. It also depends on the spatial surround of those relations. Sarah Keenan argues, "Property happens when a space holds up a relationship of belonging". Property's probabilities are made redundant in two increasingly important domains of life – not just human life, but whatever life itself may be becoming as it is transformed, first by climate change and second by novel computational agencies. Nevertheless, smart contracts are an effort to abolish the contingency of property, to remove the probability, to get rid of those merchants' commonplace practices invoked in the Uniform Commercial Code.
