Sunday, October 10, 2010

Judges Who Google: The Tip Of The Iceberg? - Greg Egan

""Today, however, a judge need only take a few moments to confirm his intuition by conducting a basic Internet search," it added. "As the cost of confirming one's intuition decreases, we would expect to see more judges doing just that."

You could probably improve the speed of justice even more by just using a wifi-enabled robot judge (as in Harry Harrison's 1959 story Robot Justice) and defense attorneys, like the lawyer program in David Brin's 1990 novel Earth and LEX (Law Expert System) from Greg Egan's 1991 short story The Moat."


3 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2841

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