Dear David,
Yep - and then we die.
Your account reminds me of work my lawyer son is doing.
Lawyers can make the mistake of thinking what makes them lawyers is the
advice they give.
Yes, they give advice but importantly the advice they give is legal advice.
They can mistake this legal aspect as being their identity = they are the
LAWyer.
What if the legal aspect of the advice can be handled by software?
That would mean a radical revision of their understanding of being a
lawyer.
Can it be done? My son has written scripts to reduce an 8 hour piece of
advice to a 90 minute operation.
Currently he is the only lawyer working in his area of specialisation that
is doing this.
What is his job now?
He still has to tweak the software, review the output for errors and
negotiate with clients.
Otherwise, he spends his spare time writing scripts to operate other
lengthy advice processes.
Or, he has more time for his wife and kids and driving his Mercedes for
fun.
keith
On 14/11/16, 4:54 pm, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
studies and related research in Design on behalf of David Sless"
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>> On 14 Nov. 2016, at 2:53 pm, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Designers and design researchers from Art and Design traditions seem
>>absent from designing the software and computer systems changing their
>>design practices.
>
>Not so, Terry. Some of us have been doing it for years! We were funded by
>Apple back in the 1980s and have subsequently enjoyed funding for
>designing software for a whole variety of systems that have profoundly
>changed our practices.
>
>Also, I have seen the work of others who have similarly extended
>practices in art and design by being involved in programming and software
>systems design. Many of us are happily at work, working ourselves out of
>a job, by forming and re-forming things around us. And then we die.
>
>David
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>
>
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