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Larry Medina wrote:
> Wikipedia has no particular notes about this quote but notes that Business
>> Week first opined about the "Paperless Office" in 1975 so it'd need to be
>> after that. Today I use that quote and attribute it to "someone", "a
>> really smart person", or some such.
Probably the most accurate attribution!
Actually, the phrase "paperless office" has been around a lot longer. For example:
The Berkshire Evening Eagle (Newspaper) - February 28, 1947
" ... Z Smith, one of the Paper-Works inventors, said Xerox researchers had
concluded that a "paperless" office could never be accomplished. ..."
noted in a search of the archives at news.google.com. So far, they have been
correct.
When I joined Naremco in 1976, the term was commonly used as word processing
began to make inroads. In our archives, [we've been around for almost 60
years], I can find use of the term in the 1960's. I know I used it in a
presentation on "The Automated Office" at an AIIE Conference in San Francisco in
1978.
I remember hearing "the paperless office ... toilet" comment at IT conferences
in the early 1970's. Toto Ltd introduced the first paperless toilet in Japan in
the 1980's.
Al
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