British Courts Need PowerPoint???

You can't make this up. ARS Technica is reporting that:

The Rt Hon Lord Igor Judge of Draycote oversees the English and Welsh judiciary in his position as the Lord Chief Justice. In a recent speech covered by the UK's Telegraph, Lord Judge noted that young jurors "are technologically proficient. Many get much information from the Internet. They consult and refer to it. They are not listening. They are reading... "

Sir Igor stumps for screens

He believes that tech-savvy youngsters have, in a very real sense, either lost or failed to cultivate the ability to process large chunks of oral information. Accustomed to skimming articles, multitasking between projects, constantly clicking links to other sites, such people would better process key information if presented on screens instead of simply through oral argument.

One shudders to imagine a court system awash in bad Powerpoint presentations with gruesome font choices and questionable transitions, but the Rt Hon has a point: concentration gets harder for webheads.

Let's put aside the fact that the man incharge of the courts is named Igor Judge. Well, let's try to put that aside anyway. Now, everything is going to have to be visual to be processed?

Oh, honestly...