ADDICTED TO LAW By Sue Van Der Hout

Remember that ad from the 60s – curlers in your bed…shame on you…curlers at the door…curlers at the store…shame on you.. Well if we could come up with lyrics that rhyme with "Crackberry", we’d have a best hit. Is there a cure for lawyers – now expected to be "on call 24/7"? Should we stop buying two piece pajamas so that we can wear the holster to bed? Is there a cure for those whose thumbs twitch at night?Is it time for a 12 Step Program just for law firms?

In Now & Next, futurist, Richard Watson considered a number of scenarios: couples on holiday who spent more time with their devices than each other; a couple with their daughter at a public pool who sent her off to the playground and then digitally whirled without a glance or comment to each other or her; the business meeting where a participant takes a call and puts the rest of the attendees on hold. Ever had a dinner like that?

Watson closed with this comment: "We just don’t switch off. Ever. We are so connected and available that we have left ourselves no time to properly think or reflect. We scroll through our days without thinking about what we are really doing or where we are ultimately going. We maybe connected globally, but our physical relationships are becoming superficial and parochial. If this continues we really will be alone and unconnected to anything that really matters." No Plea? Plea of Guilty with a Defense? Share it with us: svanderhout@girlphyte.com

06.11.2007

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