Thursday, February 5, 2009

All in

With just a few minutes left before the deadline for our SLR paper, I decided to quit editing the main body of the work and proceed to creating the bibliography portion. As I was formatting our list of references, I realized that at least 90% of our sources are available online. Since our topic is about instituting a court-annexed online dispute resolution system, the fact that our online sources outnumber "offline" ones seems to be expected. This made me wonder as to how the future of legal research might look like. In the future, ICT could progress to a level where the level of interconnectivity extends to the core of our consciousness thereby obliterating the entire concept of "I, me and myself." That might sound scary today but society may very well evolve in such direction, favoring the collective rather than the individual

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