How Computers Have Actually Fueled Our Dependency on Office Paper

environmentalgraffiti.com 28 Jun '12, 11am

How Computers Have Actually Fueled Our Dependency on Office Paper

In 1975, a prediction was made that the digital revolution would lead to a paperless office. Since then, however, our usage of paper has actually increased. According to market research firm InfoTrends, over one trillion pages of office paper are printed, copied and faxed in a year. And most of what is printed is redundant – printed, read, discarded, but also stored on a hard drive. There are many costs to using paper beyond the initial purchase, including storage, ink and mailing, which could be eliminated in a purely digital age. We owe a lot to paper. Without paper, our society could not have developed as it has done. As the knowledge about how to make paper spread throughout the world, literacy rates increased. The printing press took paper and made books available to more people. In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the first newspapers appeared, increasing our ability ...

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