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Mobile [[email]], for example, got accepted so quickly that it barely spent any time at all as an “[[innovation]]”: it went from science fiction to the commonplace overnight, skipping a phase transition altogether, like dry ice subliming to CO<sub>2</sub> and within six months had become something everyone whinges about. Likewise, fax, the in, automated [[document comparison]], remote working, [[e-discovery]] and a host of other neat recent tricks. | Mobile [[email]], for example, got accepted so quickly that it barely spent any time at all as an “[[innovation]]”: it went from science fiction to the commonplace overnight, skipping a phase transition altogether, like dry ice subliming to CO<sub>2</sub> and within six months had become something everyone whinges about. Likewise, fax, the in, automated [[document comparison]], remote working, [[e-discovery]] and a host of other neat recent tricks. | ||
But | But — and therefore — these tend not to be the applications management complains about lawyers not using. The problem here tend to be the converse: that lawyers spend too much time using these apps, and management embarks on pitch battles to ''remove'' them, limit internet access to stop people looking at blogs or cat videos or, bizarrely, functionally comparing documents. again. There is a classic line of questioning that calls for the [[exasperated Kermit face]]: | ||
{{Quote|“Do you really need standalone comparison software? Did you know there is a comparison function in [[Microsoft Word]]? Have you tried that?}} | |||
The innovations which draw sardonic clog-throwing allusions tend to ''not'' make a lawyer’s life easier but rather make it worse: they are imposed to make ''someone else’s'' life easier — usually a [[bean counter]]’s — and ones that deprive her of her [[autonomy]], or reduce her to a form-filling, button-pushing functionary — expect these to take a little while longer<ref>i.e., until the [[Omega|Apocalypse.]]</ref> to “catch on”. | |||
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