This post was written by Mohammed Karim, attorney at Bird & Bird international law firm Gordon Moore’s law that computer processor speeds would double every two years has historically held true. Ray Kurzweil’s modern theory of human development and the Law of Accelerating Returns proposes that the rate of human progress exponentially increases throughout time. …
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Podcast: Interview with ABA Techshow keynote speaker Nicholas Carr
With the Annual Bar Association’s (ABA) Techshow 2015 coming up next week, we talked with WestlawNext-sponsored keynote speaker Nicholas Carr to get a preview on what he will be discussing. In the podcast below, Carr also talks with us about the consequences surrounding our dependence on computers, how our relationship with technology has changed the …
- April 13, 2015
- Susan Martin
Wait, What? Episode 5: I was going to go out, but I got lazy
In this installment of “Wait, What?” your hosts tackle the question of whether technology makes us lazy or not. They cover everything from grocery delivery services to texting at the dinner table. Jason, Rob and Matt spend quite a bit of time in this episode discussing whether people are productive when they work from home and the effects that “work” phones …
- March 27, 2015
- Susan Martin
Wait, What? Episode 2: Welcoming our robot overlords
In the latest episode of Wait, What?, we focus on the use of drone technology and artificial intelligence. In the first part of the show, the guys mull over the different uses of drones, briefly discussing the commercial uses of drone technology and what the benefits and drawbacks are of this technology. The discussion also touches on the privacy …
- February 13, 2015
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters welcomes teachers for discussion about technology jobs
With many students headed back to school, Thomson Reuters gave teachers a friendly reminder of what it means to educate tomorrow’s workforce. For the second year, Thomson Reuters and Independent School District 196 (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan, Minn.) welcomed high school teachers to the Eagan campus to learn about the present and future workplace their students …
- August 28, 2014
- Alex Cook
Stealth disruption – ILTA 2014 session
During ILTA 2014, a number of panelists gave a series of TED-style talks on how to subtly encourage their attorneys into adopting new technology. Each panelist presented their own successful method of stealth disruption, most of which were not driven by technology but rather by social techniques for driving change within their organizations. Each panelist …
- August 20, 2014
- Andrew McLennan-Murray
ILTA 2014 opening keynote by Peter Diamandis: Our world of abundance
ILTA 2014 kicked off with a bang on Monday morning in Nashville, TN, with a keynote by Peter Diamandis, author, innovator and co-founder/executive chairman of Singularity University, the leading institution for the study of exponentially growing technologies. The theme at this year’s ILTA conference is “Imagine,” and Diamandis capitalized on that theme by asking the …
- August 18, 2014
- Susan Martin
Survey says…Technology trends in 2014 and beyond
If the reports we’re reading are true, 2014 will be a year where we continue to march toward mobility and “smarter” smart devices, the cloud will be everywhere in our professional and personal lives, and the PC will truly become passé. Of course, technologies rarely materialize out of nowhere, so most of the major trends …
- June 13, 2014
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters employee creates video series on Google Glass
Google Glass is all the rage these days, and a few Thomson Reuters employees have been sharing their thoughts on the product recently. One of those employees is Joe Raczynski, technology manager at Thomson Reuters, who consults on general technology trends in wearable media, security, privacy, and social media in his spare time. Joe created a five-part …
- May 2, 2014
- Susan Martin
Technology seen as a major driver of U.S. legislation, regulations
Everything seems to be moving faster than ever. And the pace of change for public laws continues to increase as the government tries to keep up. According to WestlawNext, more than 100,000 new or changed statutes, 160,000 new or modified regulations, and over 285,000 new judicial opinions were incorporated into the body of United States law …
- February 19, 2014
- Jeff McCoy