Whomever coined that term, "paperless society" should be taken out and shot... no, wait, I think "drawing and quartering" would be a better sentence to be pronounced on that wretched individual.
Now that we can print a gazillion copies of the same document with a single keypress, I think we have quadrupled (and that is my lowest estimate) the amount of paperwork we create for day to day work.
Checkbook? Aw, c'mon, that's so 20th century, you mean you still have a physical honest to God checkbook in your possession :-P
I have a checkbook. In fact, I have three. I even occasionally write checks. I will actually miss writing checks because I liked picking out the designs. The current batch contain National Geographic photos of great monuments and such. Stonehenge. The Great Wall. At the rate I'm going, I'll have this batch for another year or more.
These days, I use the register to log debit card withdrawals. Or sometimes, to forget to log withdrawals.
I have finally, *finally* begun saving interesting articles I find online as web archive files rather than printing out paper copies. And dumping my paper copies of New Scientist in favor of the online archives. This saves a lot in the way of files.
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Date: 2005-09-11 03:32 am (UTC)Now that we can print a gazillion copies of the same document with a single keypress, I think we have quadrupled (and that is my lowest estimate) the amount of paperwork we create for day to day work.
Checkbook? Aw, c'mon, that's so 20th century, you mean you still have a physical honest to God checkbook in your possession :-P
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Date: 2005-09-11 03:50 am (UTC)These days, I use the register to log debit card withdrawals. Or sometimes, to forget to log withdrawals.
I have finally, *finally* begun saving interesting articles I find online as web archive files rather than printing out paper copies. And dumping my paper copies of New Scientist in favor of the online archives. This saves a lot in the way of files.