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Not even those as omniscient as the Law Society can predict future technologies and their effects: only the future effects of current technologies assuming stagnation. This was drummed into me years ago when studying statistical forecasting and mathematical modelling techniques - the most obvious and dramatic example being the way the contraceptive pill wrecked so much macroeconomic planning in the two decades following the mid-1960s. Five-year projections are thus nonsense unless technology doesn't change: twenty-year projections to 2038 are not so much nonsense as utterly pointless. Why waste your breath?

That said, litigation employment could increase by an order of magnitude faster than ever seen before, to which the contribution of Brexit may be insignificant. At least, that's a foreseeable outcome of technology towards which I'm working... which methodologically might be at least as good an indicator as putting your finger in the air.

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