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Where Have All the Technophobes Gone?
About five years ago, I attended what was one of the earlier LegalTech New York conferences. I reported that two words echoed persistently through the corridors at Legal Tech ' technophobe and extranet.
Legal Tech is the excellent and information-rich three-day conference that brings lawyers and technology together. It was, then, as some lawyers and a lot of techies all obsessed with moving the legal profession into the 21st century. I said, then, that a technophobe is an individual who is so frightened of new technology that he or she recoils from it. Sometimes technophobes wear defensive robes by boasting about their ignorance, as if to imply that there's a virtue in ignorance or that technology is demeaning to the intellectually superior technophobe. It's usually a kind of false humility, designed to soften a feeling of inadequacy (or just plain laziness, whichever comes first).
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