A friend told me that when he started working in the computer field right out of college, an older colleague bet him that computers would create paperless workplaces within two years.

The guy had the decency to pay up. In 1967.

#Computers #Paperless

All corporations must die:

I'd like also to mention, that I'd need to store around 10 tons of books if I had them on paper instead of digital/paperless.

Apart from thee question whether I could afford this, I cannot imagine heating these additional room would not over time add up to a hefty carbon footprint.

“People will do the work
So machines have time to think” - #Biftek 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955dZpR7QwY&list=RD955dZpR7QwY&start_radio=1&rv=955dZpR7QwY

Note: ( Based on samples from Raymond Scott's 1967, "The Paperwork Explosion."
IBM-Jim Henson see: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Raymond+Scott%27s+paperwork+explosion+)

#Ai #Automation #paperless

Going paperless didn't get us here, a fascist American tech sector did.

Typing up a report in a word processor is a vastly different proposition to demanding bullshit machines write the same report 100 times until the machine spits out something believable

It's not the digital, though, per se.

Coal and Gas: "as long as you aren't blaming us, it's all good."

I work as a production editor in a publishing office, and we're pretty much paperless. I never print out a damn thing. There are certain advantages for using Word files and pdfs all along the way--usually fewer typos in the finished product. But, being old enough to remember doing it all on paper--even doing layouts with waxers and x-acto knives--I can say that the *process* of editing and proofreading are worse, less efficient, slower, than marking paper by hand.

Love it! Another reason to libraries

#ilovelibraries #books #paper #carbonstorage

There was an “if”.

As I said, I'd like to see the numbers. I've heard the slogan “go paperless” many times, but never with a quantitative analysis to back it up, so I'm just questioning it.

One factor that needs considering for some documents (e.g. books) is the value, by printing, of carbon capture and storage. Another issue is how many times a document will be viewed.

Another issue arises when some “authority”, e.g. a financial institution, requires sight of original paper documents. In the UK, to open a new savings or bank account, you're legally required to provide proof of ID and address, such as a utility bill ... or bank account ... at the same time as banks are strongly nudging everyone to “go paperless”. So yes, it matters a lot.