While we cannot be certain what the future will hold for the legal profession, we can be sure that information and communication technologies (“ICTs”) (in some form or another) will be a part of it. Even if we could rid the world of ICTs for attention’s sake, most of us would opt not to—no more than we would abandon our cars or microwaves or ballpoint pens or any other invention once thought to be indicative of society’s general decay that is now a well-accepted part of everyday life. It is unrealistic to think that we can return to a pre-ICT existence. Our lives are simply different now. Plus, the Digital Generation have never known any other way of life. So instead of worrying whether ICTs are “good” or “bad” for the practice of law as if we could get rid of them, we should accept that they are inevitable. To this end, legal professionals—both current and future—should pursue the suggestions that accept ICTs as a fact of life and that aim to help them adapt to technology, rather than encourage them to run from it.
