Comments on: Consider the Email… http://www.laplandica.com/2007/09/16/consider-the-email/ Updated Site: About Laponia, Jokkmokk, Outdoor activities & Older Mine Research etc. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: isecore http://www.laplandica.com/2007/09/16/consider-the-email/comment-page-1/#comment-5 isecore Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:28:48 +0000 http://www.laplandica.com/2007/09/16/consider-the-email/#comment-5 Funny fact though, when computers started revolutionizing the office back in the early 80's a lot of people started talking about the "paperless office" since they of course saw the benefits of an all-digital environment as well. But the reality turned out to be that offices consumed more paper than ever before, mostly thanks to technically illiterate bosses who couldn't cope with a computer and demanded hard-copies of everything from their secretaries. Hopefully the future will have made the paperless office a reality. Already we can see how the digital world is making physical media obsolete, just compare MP3's delivered straight from the server to your player with the old way -- going out to buy tiny little discs and haul them around. Funny fact though, when computers started revolutionizing the office back in the early 80′s a lot of people started talking about the “paperless office” since they of course saw the benefits of an all-digital environment as well.

But the reality turned out to be that offices consumed more paper than ever before, mostly thanks to technically illiterate bosses who couldn’t cope with a computer and demanded hard-copies of everything from their secretaries.

Hopefully the future will have made the paperless office a reality. Already we can see how the digital world is making physical media obsolete, just compare MP3′s delivered straight from the server to your player with the old way — going out to buy tiny little discs and haul them around.

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