Yet, the era of resistance appears to be over and it is appropriate to examine what parts of our system of law are most susceptible to change and what these changes will mean to us. The law is about to catch up to the rest of society and, in so doing, become as different as the electronic businessman, the electronic politician and the electronic athlete are from their predecessors. Law is an organism whose lifeblood is information and media of communication are the veins and arteries that move the information through the system. This kind of magic is necessary if law is to work. Law is a response to information received from the public.
Law is also information that is communicated to the public.
Law is the result of judgment and decision making involving the evaluation and organization of information. As Professor Marc Galanter has observed, law usually works not by exercise of force but by information transfer, by communication of what's expected, what forbidden, what allowable, what are the consequences of acting in certain ways. That is, law entails information about what the rules are, how they are applied, with what costs, consequences, etc. For example, when we speak of deterrence, we are talking about the effect of information about what the law is and how it is administered. Yet, this facet of the legal system is as important to law as the central nervous system is to human beings.