One Book to Go Please!
What is that contraption? Would you believe a mobile library? An instant book printer with a hard drive containing over 200,000 books. It will crank out a brand new book, complete with binding in about 10 minutes. The finished product will be professionally bound and is supposed to be indistinguishable from a ‘regular’ book.
Right now the bulk of the books are public domain books. But over 200,000 books available just for the asking. This will bring an extrensive library to small towns and rural areas.
If technology can change the library and publishing field so drastically, what can it do for the law? What effect will technology have on the law? How will the practice of law change in ways that we can’t even foresee now? How will technology open up new areas of practice and new ways to practice?
I love gadgets, but sometimes new technology opens up that turns things upside down and really changes how things function. I think the internet combined with broadband capabilities and cheap hard drive space have changed the way the world works and created a lot of different capabilities for us and we need to see how the pieces fit together.
