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The JC’s prediction: the legal industry will ''continue'' to evolve, drily, defying all expectations and confounding all predictions of the latter-day seers, visionaries, professors and change instigators. This is not a bold prediction but a ''statement of the bleeding obvious''. Of all the myriad of possible vectors a [[complex system]] could move in over an extended period, the odds of it following any single one that you happened to describe in your thought-piece are infinitesimal.
The JC’s prediction: the legal industry will ''continue'' to evolve, drily, defying all expectations and confounding all predictions of the latter-day seers, visionaries, professors and change instigators. This is not a bold prediction but a ''statement of the bleeding obvious''. Of all the myriad of possible vectors a [[complex system]] could move in over an extended period, the odds of it following any single one that you happened to describe in your thought-piece are infinitesimal.


You have as much chance — less, come to think of it — of correctly predicting the flight path of a deflating balloon.
You have as much chance — more, come to think of it — of correctly predicting the flight path of a deflating balloon.


One thing is certain: the fundamental condition for every industry-shaping proposal will be that it enhances “[[survivor|fitness]]”: not society’s fitness, nor the industry’s, nor the market’s, nor the firm’s, and certainly not the client’s — but that ''of the [[Agency paradox|person making the proposal]]''.
One thing is certain: the fundamental condition for every industry-shaping proposal will be that it enhances “[[survivor|fitness]]”: not society’s fitness, nor the industry’s, nor the market’s, nor the firm’s, and certainly not the client’s — but that ''of the [[Agency paradox|person making the proposal]]''.