It's going to be interesting to see how it will shake out. That's what lawyers do, what lawyers have always done. The implication for lawyers becomes even more dramatic today as more and more people have access to more and more data. Lawyers have always been able to be the gatekeepers in terms of raw data. To a great extent, lawyers have not really thought about how best to use the Internet in the profession.
Information resides in books and computer systems.
Knowledge resides in people's heads. For anyone, going from information to knowledge is a rather difficult thing. The very pace of life doesn't often give us the time to do that. We often make decisions based on information, not knowledge. People, not computers, will remain the most effective way to transfer knowledge, according to Devlin.