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Paper Not Going Anywhere
from the go-away dept
Judging from the piles of "stuff" surrounding me (on the desk, on the floor, on my monitor - damn, I need to clean up), the "digital revolution" hasn't worked out the way many people predicted. And, I'm not alone. People are noticing that the old promise of the "paperless" office isn't just not coming true, it's a complete joke. We're dealing with more paper than ever before, and more physical goods. Just because you can transport things digitally doesn't mean that we're going to store them digitally. Now, if someone would just build a search engine for all the paper on my desk...
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I think the author of the article is abusing the term "paperless office". I don't think the term was coined to mean a complete absence of pulped wood, including books and magazines. It was talking about volumes of internal mail so large that companies needed internal sorting offices. People having to run around and get forms signed in triplicate. Large ledger books full of accounting details and even larger filing cabinets full of them.
Books and magazines will go eventually, when technology provides a better replacement, but why the rush? I'm happy with my paperless office, and that's no joke.
Phillip.
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