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Stiffen your sinews if — ''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 fantastist with unerring regularity''] doesn’t matter. Our new [''here insert machine/technique/technology/philosophy''] consigns these unwelcome consideration to the past. We are in a new [[paradigm]]! previous assumptions no longer hold!
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 ===
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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 -.  


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