Forty Years of Legal Game-Changers

Forty Years of Legal Game-Changers

Game-changing events can occur on a micro-scale, like a bases-loaded hit that breaks open a close baseball game.  Game changing can also occur on a macro scale like Walter Camp's tossing the ball forward in the 1906 Yale-Princeton football game that transformed that sport forever.  Macro-scale game-changers occur in business and economics as well, and they include:

• Development of the steam engine
• Emergence of railroads
• The Drake oil well
• Invention of the internal combustion engine
• Introduction of income tax
• Commercial application of electricity
• Invention of the computer
• Splitting of the atom
• Introduction of the Internet and World Wide Web

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