My ideas about law and technology and my ability to write this book have benefited considerably from assistance provided by many indi- viduals. I am indebted to my colleagues in the University of Massachu- setts Department of Legal Studies—Stephen Arons, Dianne Brooks, John Bonsignore, Peter d'Errico, Ronald Pipkin, and Janet Rifkin—for encouraging my research activities and for an ongoing sharing of ideas about the new technologies, and to our staff—Claude Shepard and Tami Paluca-Sackrey—for providing help in innumerable ways. My understanding of the capabilities of information technologies also owes a great deal to discussions with Peter Martin, Tom Bruce, David Johnson, Henry H. Perritt, Trotter Hardy, Ronald Staudt, James Ham- bleton,.
