I was planning on reading a fairly recent book entitled "The Myth of the Paperless Office" (ISBN 0262194643).
It deals with talks since the early 1980s speculating the day when business can be conducted totally without the use of memos, letters, etc; i.e., not being reliant about putting things on printed paper.
I think it's interesting to thing of new technologies that enable this, like downloading books onto PDAs, but there are also new ones that discourage the paperless idea, such as those bluetooth printing devices.
Anyways, I just think we will never get to the paperless point. Even with all the versatility that digital media can offer, I think humans like tangible things.
It deals with talks since the early 1980s speculating the day when business can be conducted totally without the use of memos, letters, etc; i.e., not being reliant about putting things on printed paper.
I think it's interesting to thing of new technologies that enable this, like downloading books onto PDAs, but there are also new ones that discourage the paperless idea, such as those bluetooth printing devices.
Anyways, I just think we will never get to the paperless point. Even with all the versatility that digital media can offer, I think humans like tangible things.