The Evolution of Legal Technology: Lessons from Computing History for AI Adoption
As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I was captivated by the emerging world of home computers. I had a TI-99/4A first and later upgraded to a Commodore 64. I spent countless hours as a child writing programs in BASIC, trying to make these first home computers do various things, and absorbed in the possibilities they represented. In reflecting on the evolution of computers over the decades since those childhood experiences, I’ve come to the realization that one of the major exponential advances in computer technology for users was when home computers became widely available. That was the biggest change in our lives that came from computers and, in my view, far more transformative than any of the incremental improvements that followed.