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{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We must innovate! We have earmarked technology budget to innovate! <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We must innovate! We have earmarked technology budget to innovate! <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Great! How about some decent document comparison software? Microsoft’s comparison engine is rubbish. <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Great! How about some decent document comparison software? [[Microsoft]]’s comparison engine sucks. <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We can’t use our fuinds on that. <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We can’t use our funds on that. <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Why not? <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Why not? <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: Because it isn’t very innovative, is it? <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: Because it isn’t very innovative? <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Would it change your mind if I told you it runs on [[blockchain]]? <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Would it change your mind if I told you it runs on [[blockchain]]? <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: YES! Does it? <br>
{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: YES! Does it? <br>
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{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}} and {{caps|'''Sofware Vendor'''}} ''(in unison)'': Nothing. <br>
{{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}} and {{caps|'''Sofware Vendor'''}} ''(in unison)'': Nothing. <br>
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{{quote|Technology should be part of the everyday. We should see it and touch it and use it all the time.}}{{Author|Stewart Brand}} has a great expression for this kind of technology: the “invisible present”. The problem is that technology which does integrate seamlessly into our lives doesn’t look like technology for very long. Email. Web browsers. Smartphones. Wikipedia. Google
{{Author|Stewart Brand}} has a great expression for the kind of technology that is so good, so effective, that you don’t really think of it as technology: the “invisible present”.  


It looks like *furniture*.
Technology which does integrate seamlessly into our lives doesn’t ''look'' like technology for very long: ''email''. The Internet. Smartphones. Wikipedia. Google. We have moved on. We are looking at [[Neural network|neural networks]], [[AI]], [[distributed ledger]]s, permissionless, decentralised currency exchanges.


Things that persistently look like technology, we call “bad technology”. O Paradox.
It looks like ''furniture''.
 
Things that persistently ''look'' like technology, we call “bad technology”.  
 
O Paradox.
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*[[Why is legaltech so disappointing]]