Technology and the law 50 years ago

Instead of paralegals, contract lawyers, big-firm associates, and general partners looking page by page for documents that are relevant to a discovery request, computers can now perform the task of searching through a database for relevant documents faster, more efficiently, and often at less expense than a manual review by an attorney and staff.s The fact that, within the discovery process, computers are taking on the tedious task of conducting the initial stages of document review for final determination by an attorney calls to mind a host of predictions made in 1964 by Isaac Asimov, a prolific and heralded 20th century science fiction writer. [...]Asimov predicted, psychiatry would be the most important medical specialty in 2014- Even though I am a part of society in 2014 (or maybe especially because of that fact), I won't dare comment on that last prediction, Professor Asimov. *