I'll be the first to admit that through this blog, I probably tend to be a little critical of technology. However, there are so many ways that it has enhanced our lives.
As much as I disdain it sometimes as it keeps us virtually tethered to it, I cannot imagine a world without the Internet. This would be unfathomable for me.
During the past few months, I have been going through some processes in my life which have required me to understand our family law system. Honestly, the amount of resources out there is just amazing. I don't know how much hundreds of hours were spent researching the law, the process and existing cases online. I can't imagine how this could have been done before. I guess "back in the day", one really did have to depend on a lawyer to do all of this footwork. Either that or I guess that one had to make specific trips to a legal or reference library. Still - just manually finding the information without a search engine - can you imagine?
One side note though and this dovetails into one of my thoughts from a previous blog. That being that one has to be very careful about what information is found on the Internet. Question EVERYTHING that you see and get confirmation. I actually ran into a situation just a couple of days before my filing date where my whole case just about came crumbling down around my knees for just this reason. As part of my research, I had determined which forms to fill out and I found one of the forms through a search engine, downloaded it and filled it out. I actually called the courthouse later to confirm as I had a sneaking suspicion and I was right - that form was no longer valid - and if I had proceeded to the courthouse with that form - well - it probably would have been disasterous.
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