Book Review

Miklós Kengyel/Zoltán Nemessányi (Eds.): Electronic Technology and Civil Procedure. New Paths to Justice from Around the World

Abstract

In the past few decades, innovation in information and communication technologies had significant impacts both on society and business and is still causing wide-ranging effects on today’s life. The scope and scale of all these impacts can not be accurately identified, but two of them are clearly recognizable. On one side it has revolutionized commerce and increased businesses’ efficiency, on the other side it has considerably modified private life. Human relations have changed and the person's role in society has been redefined. There is now a generation who has grown up in this era and lives two lives, one in the “real world” and one online. To them, modern information and communication technologies are no longer only tools to communicate, but something different, a part of their life. They read online newspapers, manage their personal and business relations on social networks, have entertainment on the internet and maybe, in the not-so-distant future, they will litigate on the web too. [...]