This document discusses predictions for the future of technology. It references the film "The Truman Show" and how people increasingly curate their own lives for social media like performances. New technologies often find new purposes rather than replacing old ones entirely, like how cars didn't replace horses. The document predicts that by 2030, robots will take over many jobs like fast food, retail, and parts of the medical and legal professions through automation, but criminal law will still require human lawyers due to rights to legal counsel.
13. Maybe you’ve heard of Douglas Adams’ three laws of
technology adoption?
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions
to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal
and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the
world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen
and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and
you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the
natural order of things.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
14. “Communications tools don't get socially interesting until
they get technologically boring.”
Maybe you’ve heard of Clay Shirky’s axiom of tech +
sociology?
15. A while ago, I came up with my own law of technology
which is probably why you likely haven’t heard of it
16. New technology rarely completely replaces old
technology. We generally find a new purpose for “old
tech”
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/jdojc/how-magazines-can-survive-the-digital-age
Jason Dojc’s Law of technology abandonment
18. Cars didn’t replace horses. Horse riding evolved from
transportation to recreation
19. Photography didn’t replace painting. Impressionism,
cubism, surrealism and several other important art
movements emerged after the invention of the
camera.
20. And vinyl. Still around for hard-core audiophiles but
also found new life as a DJ’s instrument.
21. What do you think
could never happen
What do you think
could never happen
by 2030? Why?
25. Even the medical and legal professions are slowly
getting automated
26. 60 million
Number of disputed
settled by disagreements
are resolved using
“online dispute
resolution” software,
without a traditional
lawyer.
3x more than lawsuits
dealt with in the entire
US justice system.
27.
28. So even lawyers are looking one
day replaced by robots.
Except one particular lawyer…