I disagree Greg.  I firmly believe that the generation following us will
achieve a nearly complete paperless state; probably in the last 10 years
of their working career.

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

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Taina Makinen wrote:

"I find it more difficult to achieve the same results with
spreadsheets
and word processing files because I can't see all of the information
at
once in the same way. (And web pages are even harder for me to
handle.)
This isn't to say that I don't like electronic documents; it's just
more
work for me to take in the data in the same way as I do for paper."


Exactly.  Ergonomics, ergonomics, ergonomics!!!!  It's the key. 
Sorry,
Steve, but we'll never achieve 'paperlessness' until some genius
solves
the very real ergonomic issues that hinder human interaction with a
computer.  Like Taina, I need more interaction with my information
than
what my computer affords.  When somebody can put computer information
into a thing that I can hold in my hand and flip through like a sheet
of
paper or a book while moving around my office, instead of sitting in
one
place staring at an illuminated screen 28" in front of my nose, then I
may be willing to stop printing every email that's over 2 sentences
long.  Until then, I guess I'm a confirmed Gutenberger.

Greg Schildmeyer, CRM

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