Paperless office? No way. Printed docs are a lot easier to read and can be
"pulled up" a lot faster than any computer can, especially if you're
organized.
When I was working for Wells Fargo, I was either being a witness on a
witness stand in a courtroom or having my deposition taken --constnatly, for
23 years. Grand jury, civil court, criminal court, bankruptcy court,
appeals court --haven't been in the US Supreme Court though a classmate is
one of the justices. Paper records --reams of it--were always required.
Easier to autheniticate and a lot harder to "accidentally erase". Computer
printouts, particularly of financial records, would produce acres of glassy
eyed stares for most of the legfal types, including judges.
Somewhere I read that the computer revolution has actually increased the
consumption of paper a lot -- hence one of the reasons for the accelerated
disapearance of forests.
I first heard that "paperless office" forecast in late 1962 by the VP in
charge of Wells Fargo's then new computer center in SF. Didn't believe it
then, don't believe it now.
Hart Corbett
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>From: "Henry Richardson" <itai46@hotmail.com>
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: real value?
>Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2001, 8:21 PM
>
>>From: "IronWorks" <ironworks@ameritech.net>
>>
>>And we now have the paperless office that was predicted 5 years ago.
>
> I've been working in the computer industry for 20 years and I'm afraid you
> are wrong. The paperless office was predicted more like 15 years ago. :-)
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