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''DR. JOHNSON'': (to George) So, tell me, sir, what words particularly interested you? <br> | ''DR. JOHNSON'': (to George) So, tell me, sir, what words particularly interested you? <br> | ||
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''Mobile email? Are you kidding me?'' | ''Mobile email? Are you kidding me?'' | ||
Within nine months every bastard in the firm had one and no face-to-face meeting could last longer than seven minutes before losing every participant to the little screen. They were called “crackberries” for a | Within nine months every bastard in the firm had one and no face-to-face meeting could last longer than seven minutes before losing every participant to the little screen. They were called “crackberries” for a reason. Likewise [[email]], the internet, [[delta-view]] and [[Bring your own premises|working from home]]. They went down the eagley gullet without touching the sides. No-one needed to take anyone on a “[[change journey]]”. The eaglery ''saw'' it, ''got'' it and ''adopted'' it immediately. | ||
You could argue the BlackBerry single-handedly did away with “close of business” as any kind of barrier to commerce. Suddenly, everyone was reachable, 24/7 wherever they were and whatever they were doing. This new capability: the ability to respond instantly, from wherever, promised to put the deal execution into hyperdrive. | You could argue the [[BlackBerry]] single-handedly did away with “close of business” as any kind of barrier to commerce. Suddenly, everyone was reachable, 24/7 wherever they were and whatever they were doing. This new capability: the ability to respond instantly, from wherever, promised to put the deal execution into hyperdrive. | ||
But it didn’t seem to make deals any more frequent | But it didn’t seem to make deals any more frequent. It only made the level of senseless interaction between the deal teams greater. The volume of email traffic no doubt spiked, but it by way of increased [[signal-to-noise ratio|noise]]: the signal — the volume of deals, and the substantive issues in them was unaffected. | ||
In the same way that the extraordinary expansion of a system once designed to defend against nuclear strike is now largely devoted to sharing memes, [[Get off Twitter|hot takes on Twitter]] and [[Non-fungible token|non-fungible tokens]], so will much of [[legaltech]] find us, proverbially, looking up rude words. | In the same way that the extraordinary expansion of a system once designed to defend against nuclear strike is now largely devoted to sharing memes, [[Get off Twitter|hot takes on Twitter]] and [[Non-fungible token|non-fungible tokens]], so will much of [[legaltech]] find us, proverbially, looking up rude words. | ||
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*[[Innovation]] | |||
*[[Furniture]] | |||
*[[Drills and holes]] | *[[Drills and holes]] | ||
*[[Change journey]] | *[[Change journey]] | ||
*[[Lawyer acceptance factor]] | *[[Lawyer acceptance factor]] | ||
*[[Software as a service]] | *[[Software as a service]] | ||