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.
It's true, We use a a lot of paper every year, but I think we are moving in the right direction of digitizing everything, I don't think we will every abolish the use of paper/pen, It has too many utilities and purposes, but hopefully we can get it to a manageable level.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I do not believe pen and paper will ever go away. What if we have a major power outage or system outage where the digital systems are unavailable for a long period of time? A printed copy will suffice during these times of peril. Prime example is when the Unemployment system that failed and delayed recipient checks for a few weeks. Not a good situation.
ReplyDeletePresently, hard copies are necessary. Regardless of how much you back up to secure servers, etc., should the power grid go down - data will be inaccessible or lost.
ReplyDeleteI scan everything personal to my external hard drive. I don't like having mounds of paper cluttering everything up. However, really important receipts or documents are kept in my safe, just in case of a fire. I agree with the three previous posts...we will continue to use paper and pen, but we are heading in the right direction. I do as much digitally as I can both at work and at home. I like the convenience of it, and it saves me so much time.
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