Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Hurray for the engineers. We are the new champions of civil rights. What happened to the lawyers? What happened to the justice system?

There is a new champion of civil rights: the engineers. We understand the flow of information on the Internet and everywhere on earth. We see denial of basic human rights and we twiddle the bits so that rights return.

This is great.

On the other hand, what happened to the lawyers? They have become like used car salesmen – slick hair, slick suits, and nothing behind the posturing.

What happened to the justice system? They are still arguing about ink and paper.