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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 === | ||
He’s not proud of it, but in his wild, early years, the JC spent a time in the company of a British coven of [[vampire squid]]s. It was the early noughties. He remembers a spring day in March 2000, when he came across one of these little tadpoles The poor little | He’s not proud of it, but in his wild, early years, the JC spent a time in the company of a British coven of [[vampire squid]]s. It was the early noughties. It was source material for ''[[Deltaview Force: An Opco Boone Adventure]]'' | ||
He remembers a spring day in March 2000, when he came across one of these little tadpoles. The poor little punk was in a state, lolling around his cubicle, waving a [[red herring]] for PetVan, or BluBeenz, or [[Lexrifyly]] or some such thing — one forgets — his mouth frothing, is glowing eyes rolling in their sockets. All this little analyst could do was mutter, over and over, “''I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE”''. | |||
The JC flipped a few pages — prospectuses only had two or three hundred back then, so you could lift them unaided — and remarked, “but, surely, it has no forecasted revenue, let alone profit, in the next nineteen years. It even says so in the prospectus.” | The [[JC]] flipped a few pages — prospectuses only had two or three hundred back then, so you could lift them unaided — and remarked, “but, surely, it has no forecasted revenue, let alone profit, in the next nineteen years. It even says so in the prospectus.” | ||
Young Renfield — for that was his name — convulsed in bubbling, | Young Renfield — for that was his name — convulsed in bubbling, foamy laughter. | ||
“Yes it is! It is all ''disclosed'' man! We’re only taking orders stapled to [[big-boy letter]]s! We’re 'wildly'' over-subscribed!” | |||
“But this company won’t make any money?” | “But this company won’t make any money?” | ||
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*[[Software is eating the world]]. — © Marc Andreessen, 2009 | *[[Software is eating the world]]. — © Marc Andreessen, 2009 | ||
*The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers! — © {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}} | *The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers! — © {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}} | ||
*Everyone is going to be nice to each other now Generation Z is in control and we have taken out and shot all the old white men. — © Every millennial, and millennial apologist ever, 2018 -. | *Everyone is going to be nice to each other now Generation Z is in control and we have taken out and shot all the [[old white men]]. — © Every millennial, and millennial apologist ever, 2018 -. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[The dog in the night time]] | *[[The dog in the night time]] | ||
*[[Technological unemployment]] | *[[Technological unemployment]] | ||
[[Generation Wishful]] | |||
{{Ref}} | {{Ref}} | ||