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:—{{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}} | :—{{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}} | ||
Stiffen your sinews | Stiffen your sinews when you hear this one. | ||
“This time it is different”. This time, the fact that [''Here insert inconvenient but basic operating assumption of life on Earth that hitherto has spoiled the plans of dreamers and fantasists with unerring regularity''] doesn’t matter, because our new [''here insert machine/technique/technology/philosophy''] consigns these unwelcome considerations to the past. We are in a new [[paradigm]]! previous assumptions no longer hold! | |||
Law is the world’s second-oldest profession. when considering threats to the legal business model, bear in mind the colossal power of the “[[Lindy effect]]” on a calling that has held its own at the top of the social heap for an unbroken stretch of four of five thousand years.<ref>Or [https://www.upcounsel.com/lectl-a-short-history-of-lawyers two-and-a-half million years]? Well played, UpCounsel.</ref> A much better question to ask is, “in what way have things changed, such that this time could not possibly be ''the same''?” | |||
=== The [[Lexrifyly]] IPO === | === The [[Lexrifyly]] IPO === | ||