15 years is a crazy long time.  Technological &#x2F; scientific progress is exponential - we will witness much, much more change in the next 15 than we have in the last 15.  And, that&#x27;s a daunting thought, since 2000 was such a different world than it is now.<p>The only forces keeping law in its relative stasis are its attachments to slow-moving government processes, its &#x27;guild-like culture&#x27; and the resulting protectionism.  But, once capital moves faster in that direction (and it will) those systematic factors will slide apart quite easily.<p>It&#x27;s good to be confident, but having participated in and thus seen the wave of progress in AI over the last 20 years, I&#x27;m pretty scared for my own career. It is definitively an exponential process and one that probably rivals Moore&#x27;s law in effectiveness.