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[[File:Guevara.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A guerrilla in a room, yesterday.]]}}The [[Jolly Contrarian]] | [[File:Guevara.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A guerrilla in a room, yesterday.]]}}The [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s contrarian advice : {{maxim|to increase efficiency, seek to remove technology from the workplace}}. | ||
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=== "We don't pay lawyers to type, son" === | === "We don't pay lawyers to type, son" === | ||
Classic example: computers and the law. Things weren’t so bad in 1975. There was a natural limit on legal wrangling. When you wanted to edit a legal {{t|contract}} during the negotiation that would mean ''retyping the entire page''. Hence, [[negotiation]] was necessarily bounded by the effort and time in recreating and circulating the document — by ''post''. The lawyer’s art was to say something once, clearly and precisely. Since any editing was clearly [[waste]]ful, superficial amendment was not the apparently<ref>But not actually. See: ''[[Waste]]''.</ref> costless frippery it is today. | Classic example: computers and the law. Things weren’t so bad in 1975. There was a natural limit on legal wrangling. When you wanted to edit a legal {{t|contract}} during the negotiation that would mean ''retyping the entire page''. Hence, [[negotiation]] was necessarily bounded by the effort and time in recreating and circulating the document — by ''post''. The lawyer’s art was to say something once, clearly and precisely. Since any editing was clearly [[waste]]ful, superficial amendment was not the apparently<ref>But not actually. See: ''[[Waste]]''.</ref> costless frippery it is today. | ||
Twenty years later, lawyers had computers on their desks. The traditional refrain<ref>I had an office manager say this to me, as a young attorney. True story.</ref> “''we don’t pay lawyers to type, son''” was losing its force. By the millennium, you didn’t even need a business case to have internet access. | Twenty years later, lawyers had computers on their desks. The traditional refrain<ref>I had an office manager say this to me, as a young attorney. True story.</ref> “''we don’t pay lawyers to type, son''” was losing its force. By the millennium, you didn’t even need a business case to have internet access. | ||