Comments on: Why you should go paperless in 2013

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:15:01 +0000

Just look at how many pages Obamacare is.

By: Jim Mooney

Jim Mooney — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:33:46 +0000

One reason to not go entirely paperless is it’s Really Hard to hack paper.

By: Don Berry

Don Berry — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:28:39 +0000

I’ve been doing all my graphics projects, mainly book design and illustration, completely digitally for a decade, and I recently purchased a tablet (Samsung, because of the precise, pressure sensitive pen) that has allowed me to begin keeping my handwritten journal digitally as well as create complete artworks with various apps. Tons of paper and other files and materials are no longer piling up and I can more efficiently use my studio space. I love the digital age. Even if I don’t make it to the singularity, I am grateful to be able to take advantage of the technology available to me…it’s already a miraculous new world!

By: Frances

Frances — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:07:53 +0000

Well until they create computer screens that are as easy on the eyes as paper is, I can’t see anyone really going totally paperless. Plus I agree with asiwei about ease of sorting.. You just can’t get an overview on a computer.

By: josdorpjossie

josdorpjossie — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:19:48 +0000

It’s not about the price of the displays. It’s about having the right cheap software for your puspose. The company I work for is part in the automation of trading. The costs have dropped with a like factor 100 over the last 30 years, but still for small businesses it is not always cost effective.

By: asiwel

asiwel — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:12:43 +0000

Well, yes. This is certainly true …

By: asiwel

asiwel — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:06:47 +0000

The idea of totally paperless has always been ridiculous. Paper is a very good and useful thing. If you have much to sort out and make sense of, sitting on the floor surrounded by stacks of stuff you can easily handle, feel, sort, and understand is sometimes the only (efficient) way … Imagine scanning, renaming, saving, and sorting a year’s worth of debit or credit card receipts on a computer ( or worse, just ignoring or throwing these away, with only a line in some electronic bank statement to show they even existed and not what they were for). Of course the ideas of organizing and only handling paper (or a computer pdf file or photo) one time are not ridiculous at all – very good, in fact. And, furthermore, where possible (email, pdfs, etc) most (well, lots of) people and businesses already save tremendous amounts of paper using electronic filing and record-keeping. But building really useful electronic databases (that are sustainable over years) is not easy, even today.

By: Smb12321

Smb12321 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:25:13 +0000

It’s all a matter of economic – like recycling, alternative energy and smart devices. When the price can compete with existing technology and the first few pockets of buyers emerge, the conversion is easy. except for nostalgia there should be no need for new “paper” in an office with electronic “paper”.

By: Walter Baltzley

Walter Baltzley — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:07:48 +0000

I predicted back in 2001 that the world would NOT go fully paperless until 8 X 11 inch, high-resolution displays dropped to a price-point under $50…making them affordable enough that the average person can own 3 or 4, and can easily replace them when they break.

By: Eddie G

Eddie G — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:28:35 +0000

The paper use and waste from the average person is miniscule in comparison to the government and law agencies across the country. We use handfulls of paper when having to work with large quantities, but a typical proposal from a law firm or government entitiy prints out reams of paper at a time easily. This is not a single printing either, but multiple prints to go to groups of people and/or committees. Do they go paperless? No. The use of paper from regular people is nothing in comparison.