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Rewiring Old Architecture: Why U.S. Courts Have Been So Slow And Uneven In Their Take-Up Of Digital Technology, Peter W. Martin
Rewiring Old Architecture: Why U.S. Courts Have Been So Slow And Uneven In Their Take-Up Of Digital Technology, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
Given the centrality of information and communication to the activities and institutions of law and government it is not surprising that during the early turbulent days of the digital revolution enthusiasts imagined that the new technology would work dramatic changes on this critical sphere, changes far greater in magnitude than those flowing from such past innovations as calculators, tape recorders, or copy machines. Students of government and consultants drew analogies between transformations taking place in the private sector (the emergence of e-commerce and distributed, virtual enterprises) and what governments might or should or would become (e-government). Greater efficiency, improved accessibility …