David Kalat

February 07, 2024 | Legaltech News

Fantastic technological leaps forward may be possible, but they leave behind a frustrated base of users invested in abandoned tech. One such example in the 1970s was the rise of 32-bit memory structures, which threatened to render the existing suites of 16-bit-based software code obsolete.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

January 03, 2024 | Legaltech News

In the early 2000s, the now-defunct Pay-By-Touch was the first service to offer payment via a fingerprint registered with a biometric recognition system. Privacy concerns related to the massive database of fingerprints the company left behind would eventually inspire legislation like BIPA.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

December 11, 2023 | Legaltech News

The original Y2K was resolved thanks to an estimated $100 billion worth of diligent effort by dedicated computer engineers dutifully rewriting affected code behind the scenes. A similar issue will arise in 2038—the Y2K38 problem, as it were—and will yield to the same solution.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

November 06, 2023 | Legaltech News

In November 1958, Hans Peter Luhn created a machine with the seemingly magical ability to process human language, efficiently sifting and sorting words—also known as keywords, which would be come a cornerstone of e-discovery and other legal process.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

October 02, 2023 | Legaltech News

Nearly a century before video-calling technologies became ubiquitous, then–Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover made the very first video call on April 8, 1927.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

August 03, 2023 | Legaltech News

While the modern computer user might be tempted to giggle at the seemingly anachronistic sight of tape reels used for computer data, the technology never went away.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

July 05, 2023 | Legaltech News

As the use of cellular technology started to spread, CDMA technology enabled genuinely simultaneous users to broadcast on the same frequency at the same time, without risk of interference—like digital bubble wrap.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

June 05, 2023 | Legaltech News

The era of mobile telephony started much longer ago than one might imagine. On June 17, 1946, a man driving through the streets of St. Louis made a telephone call from his car—and thereby made history.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

May 03, 2023 | Legaltech News

A Paperwork Crisis forced Wall Street to change the way it did business, ushering in automation and hastening the business world's transition to the Computer Age.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

April 03, 2023 | Legaltech News

Google's reputation for April Fools' Day jokes inclined many to assume the 2004 announcement of Gmail was yet another gag. In later interviews, Sergey Brin said the best form of an April Fools' prank would be to debut something that sounded so crazy it had to be a joke, and then let it sink in that the service was real and here to stay.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read