I was astounded a few days ago to be reading online a very technical blog by
someone writing about creating open source code or something equally
digitally bound. He wrote something to the effect of "I am really getting
some good ideas right now, so I am going to end this posting, get a pen and
paper, and write down a few really good thoughts I am having regarding
....XYZ or whatever ".
I was shocked. I thought - what? No word processor, MS notepad, One Note,
PowerPoint, Sticky Notes, ... ? I mean, how many ways are there to jot down
a few notes digitally? And this blogger said he was going to grab a pen and
pencil because he wanted to write down some great thoughts quickly before he
forgot them? Sounds like paper is here to stay for a while. Even IT uses
paper it appears!
Excuse me while I get some of these Post It notes off my computer screen, as
I think I have been retaining them past their retention period.
John
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John Phillips
Information Technology Decisions
www.infotechdecisions.net
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Subject: Re: The Paperless Office - Why It - WILL NOT EVER HAPPEN !
What a fascinating discussion - lest my only contribution to it be "potty
humor", I would like to interject the thought that what John, Pat, and
others have been describing are what Sellen and Harper characterized as the
relative affordances of paper and electronic documents in "The Myth of the
Paperless Office". I don't think I could ever go back happily to a world
before computers and smartphones with all the wealth of information and
assistants at my beck and call, but I also know there are times when only
paper provides certain, well, affordances that make my work or entertainment
more efficient or comfortable.
Maybe someday all the affordances that paper offers can be provided along
with the amazing affordances of electronic information - and I will say
"hear, hear". In the meantime, I believe that this change like all change
will be very slow in coming.
Mary Hilliard, CRM
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