In 1994, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away.

As I reach the fifty first anniversary of my induction into the Florida Bar in 1972, I suppose, like all old people, I ask myself how time passed so quickly. As I participated yesterday, for the second year in a row, in the Technology Symposium of the Standing Committee on Technology of the Florida Bar at the Bar Convention, I was again struck by the youth of the other participants. I thought back to the 1994 Bar Convention, when my Committee (the first version of the Committee on Technology) introduced our fellow Bar members to this new thing called the Internet. I saved the banner from our presentations; and, it can be seen in these photos. We had computer terminals installed at the Convention, so that lawyers could see the promise of a new way of finding case law, and communicating with colleagues. In our wildest dreams, we never considered that we would be carrying computers in our pockets and on our wrists in the not too distant future. Sometimes, I wish that I could be around in another 30 years, to see where technology has taken us. But, that privilege will be reserved for the fresh, young faces that I observed yesterday. Be good to each other. Time flies.