That is to say, the legal world is «an older industry with a lot of money in it, but where at the same time there are
few tech applications matched to it».
Not exact matches
In the past
few years, various Chinese companies and funds have made numerous bids for high -
tech firms — some with military
applications — in the U.S. and Europe.
BMW is finally bringing its baby SUV, the BMW X1, to the US this fall as part of the X1's mid-life refresh or life cycle impulse (in BMW - speak) and it fits a whole lot of trends into a car smaller than the Toyota RAV4: It targets city dwellers who need small vehicles for tight parking spaces; it speaks to baby boomers who have
fewer possessions (and kids) to lug around but still want an upscale vehicle; and it has many but not all of the big - Bimmer
tech goodies that can raise the price of a new Bimmer by $ 20K, including BMW's suite of
applications that live in the center stack for music, information, and navigation.
This is one of the better
applications I've seen of high -
tech pneumatic seat adjustments that were something of a novelty a
few years ago.
In fact, some
tech bloggers found they hit the 250 MB ceiling after only three days of surfing, downloading a
few applications and visiting popular social media sites.
The
tech has
applications beyond destruction - we've already seen it used for AI (Forza and Titanfall), streaming (Sunset Overdrive and PSNow) and savegames... A
few months back I read an article about a dev that was using the cloud to calculate wind physics as a means of having flora (trees / branches / foliage) that bent and swayed according to their height and position relative to each other and the edge of a virtual forest.
He added that in Mexico, and largely in Latin America, as far as he could see, there were
few local legal
tech companies, while adoption of US or other foreign legal
tech applications, beyond billing systems, was minimal.
While Legal
Tech has been more commonly associated with the
application of technology and software to help law firms with practice management, document storage, billing, accounting, and electronic discovery, in the last
few years it has blossomed more into a means whereby access can be granted to people through online software that might reduce or even eliminate the need to consult a lawyer.