Law in Contemporary Society

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Our Shared Law School Experience

In the Internet age, life as we know it is–well, should be–a persistent fight against allowing algorithms to influence our everyday lives. The dynamics of law school mirror those discussed above about our online experience. So how do we resist? How do we distill the humming of everything around us to focus on curating our own law school experience?
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The strength of the draft is its clarity about the technology you use; its weakness is the clarity about the technology, which makes it seem as though that's just they way it all works, which it most definitely isn't. Your software is connected to platforms that use other software to customize what you see. But mine isn't. My browser isn't leaking information to the webservers I talk to, and those webservers belong to publishers that show me the table of contents and don't recommend what I read (or if they do, their reommendations are turned completely off.) I never see ads, ever, anywhere. I don't use any platform services, and most of the services you use platforms for (email, messaging, videoconferencing, document-sharing, etc.) I provide to myself and others using servers of my own. I control all the software I use: it is free as in freedom as well as free as in beer, which means I can change it, share it, give it to other people, as well as study and understand it as fully as I care to do, which is plenty.

And all those other freedoms you describe, to learn, to read, to publish and to share at levels never before available to all but the most privileged of humanity, are still there, in full flower. So begin to imagine what that would mean, not just for me, or for you, but for anyone. Because the software is free. cost is not the limit. Knowledge is. When do you want to start to learn?

 
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