Jurors are using their iPhones and BlackBerrys to do research, hoping to make informed decisions, I assume. Or maybe people just can't bear to let something interesting pass without remarking on it. Everybody's life can become an open book. Well, Class, Teacher says turn in your squirt guns and your electronic devices. You may have them back at the end of the school year or when you have reached a verdict. Whichever comes first.
Too bad it's not that easy. Because usually jurors go home at night and everything's wired one way or another. You'd like to think that jurors are wired to obey the rules for the duration of their service but I doubt if jury duty is so personally rewarding that people would want to forgo using the Internet. I wonder if Steve Jobs called his computer the Apple because it is so tempting?
Too bad it's not that easy. Because usually jurors go home at night and everything's wired one way or another. You'd like to think that jurors are wired to obey the rules for the duration of their service but I doubt if jury duty is so personally rewarding that people would want to forgo using the Internet. I wonder if Steve Jobs called his computer the Apple because it is so tempting?