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:— | :— Huey Lewis, ''I Want A New Drug'' (1984)}}{{smallcaps|The theory goes}}, so say any number of [[Thought leader|thought-pieces]], that there are two kinds of technology business: ''painkillers'' — those that address acute immediate problems, and ''vitamins'' — those that invisibly guard against problems over the medium to long term. | ||
Seeing legal service as something that either masks a deep-seated malaise without addressing it — a “painkiller” — or a quick, cheap and hard-to-prove substitute for the boring work of living a healthy lifestyle — a vitamin — and in either case overlooking important medical functions such as, you know, ''diagnosing'' ''and curing patients'' is the classic legal-tech take. | Seeing legal service as something that either masks a deep-seated malaise without addressing it — a “painkiller” — or a quick, cheap and hard-to-prove substitute for the boring work of living a healthy lifestyle — a vitamin — and in either case overlooking important medical functions such as, you know, ''diagnosing'' ''and curing patients'' is the classic legal-tech take. | ||