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The best applications for going paperless are long-established ones
whose output are predictable, e.g., database printouts and completed
forms. The toughest applications have large volumes of information from
multiple sources, in multiple media formats, that need to be assembled
and digested very quickly. For example, preparing for a deposition
during legal discovery. Things have gotten very interesting. We have a
number of cases on the cutting edge of computer forensics. But hard
copy remains critical because in so many instances that are only partly
under our control, paper is either the most efficient, or the most
practical, or sometimes the only way if we want to meet a deadline.
Especially for teams thrown together just for one case, with members
from two or more entities. (Not to mention the judge, court reporters,
opposing counsel, adverse party, related paries, witnesses, experts...)
On the bright side, as the volume of paper records in other industries
declines, that will be reflected in the legal industry.
A few months ago I canceled my newspaper subscription after 19 years. I
miss it real bad. Now almost all my news comes from radio and intranet.
Intranet offers hyperlinks and multimedia, but I miss the stuff I used
to read by accident because my eyes stumbled over it. Or you flip the
pages in scan mode just in case there's something good. You can scan
massive amounts of information that way--I think that's the main thing
you can't do yet electronically.
Gary L. Grieme
Records Manager
(612) 349-8538
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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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