In my experience, consumer computing technologies gave boost to
higher paper consumption, including very frequently senseless paper waste.
In the era of typewriters, for a few errors, people would use a
white-out, and only occasionally would reprint the entire page. With
computers, people thoughtlessly reprint the entire 10-20 page-long
because of a minor typo on page 19. ... and then once more, and
then again.
But often, the higher paper consumption does help productivity.
Guilty as charged: while preparing grant proposals or publications, or
reviewing those of others, - most of the time I do that on paper.
It's just much easier to see things, and you can have many pages in view
(if you have a large table or couch).
So, I was very surprised to hear about the paper being the reason
for the office-product companies' financial problems.
Igor
Bruce Walker Thu, 15 Nov 2018 05:40:48 -0800 wrote:
When I began my career in 1978 I worked for one of the then Big Three
word processor companies (AES Data, Canada's answer to Wang and IBM)
and the phrase "paperless office" was widely heard. Paper would soon
be obsolete.
When I wrapped up my full time career in 2010 I worked in the Toronto
office of a San Francisco wireless firm (Soma Networking) and was
located not far from a big honking multi copier/printer (possibly a
Ricoh) that churned out documents all the time. This despite that all
meetings featured a table full of laptops and tablets.
"Paperless office". Pffft. :-)
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 4:43 AM Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote:
It’s also true, though, that Ricoh (and all the other office equipment
companies) are having a terrible time as the world abandons paper
documents.
Rick
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