Technology is transforming our thinking and our communications. No longer bounded by speech and writing, we transact law in big data from virtual offices. Lawyers are surrounded by automation, but not the incarcerated. Theirs is the shadow play of confinement, the moldering of books, the magics of letter writing. An Information Curtain lies between the far-points of actual innocence and artificial intelligence, making access to the courts a technology issue.

Glaciers of Ink

We are on a journey from an ink drenched past to a paperless future. “Thinking like a lawyer” is being recast by algorithms and digitization. See Ken Strutin, “Automatic Justice: Shaping the Legal Mind of Tomorrow,” LLRX, June 2017. But there is always one precinct of society that never seems to change.

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