Law Practice
Sep. 23, 2019
When did we become old?
I am in the wrong line of work. But I am fine with that. Nowadays, we have to transition to the internet. I’m among the last of the digital immigrants, old enough to recall that era before the World Wide Web replaced everything — I was a member of the bar practicing in San Francisco before the dot.com boom-and-bust of the last millennium. I hate to commiserate with my cohort, just after the baby boomers. This is old news by now as every utterance is doomed to be: We are obsolete. I wonder if anybody else has these feelings.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
I am in the wrong line of work. But I am fine with that. Nowadays, we have to transition to the internet. I'm among the last of the digital immigrants, old enough to recall that era before the World Wide Web replaced everything -- I was a member of the bar practicing in San Francisco before the dot.com boom-and-bust of the last millennium. I hate to commiserate with my cohort, just after the baby boomers. This is old news by now as every utterance is doomed to be: We ...
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