Why do I scan and why should you care?

What concerns you? Is it the threat of global warning? Or perhaps whether or not the panda bears will be seen by your grandchildren? Then again, maybe your only real thought involves that receding hairline of yours. I used to have the same worries, and then I began scanning paper.

I would like you to imagine all of the different occasions you have filled out paperwork. Doctor's offices, job applications, new hire paperwork, applying for a passport, or filling out a marriage certificate come to mind for me. When you hand that paperwork over, where does it go?

Many companies manually type the data into their system and then file that paperwork away, to be stored for the next seven years. We will get into the "Why?" it works that way another day. 

If you spend time thinking about mankind's future, you will see that pens and paper are primitive, obsolete tools, slowly fading from our world. My goal for this blog is to explain the world of useless paper. I want you to stop worrying about that fingernail cracking, whether or not your significant other really loves you, or why Bieber fever is a phrase. I instead want you to Google the amount of paper printed per year, and get angry.