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


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