• The Environment

    Making a Paperless Home Office

    By Posted on 3.25.2008 3 Comments

    Remember the promise of the paperless office? Anyone in front of a monitor can testify to just the opposite having taken hold. The ubiquity of the personal computer was supposed to have freed us from the sea of paperwork washing over our desks every day, and yet all it seems to have done is open the floodgates further. Those of us who work from home are not immune—are at times worse, letting paper stack up in every corner. And even as technology aims for the paperless ideal, that still can only be part of the solution.

    6.6.2008 at 02:41pm - Comment by Jemaiser

    The digital paper is great, digital books will save a lot waste paper and would allow us to reallocate important natural resources to other applications. What the home office needs is to combine the Kindle or E-book Reader with an etch a sketch. The result would be a simple light weight electronic notebook that can hold and display thousands of pages of information in 8x5"x11" format and can be used in work, home and educational environments. This could be a very good thing.

  • The Environment

    Making a Paperless Home Office

    By Posted on 3.25.2008 3 Comments

    Remember the promise of the paperless office? Anyone in front of a monitor can testify to just the opposite having taken hold. The ubiquity of the personal computer was supposed to have freed us from the sea of paperwork washing over our desks every day, and yet all it seems to have done is open the floodgates further. Those of us who work from home are not immune—are at times worse, letting paper stack up in every corner. And even as technology aims for the paperless ideal, that still can only be part of the solution.

    6.6.2008 at 02:41pm - Comment by Jemaiser

    The digital paper is great, digital books will save a lot waste paper and would allow us to reallocate important natural resources to other applications. What the home office needs is to combine the Kindle or E-book Reader with an etch a sketch. The result would be a simple light weight electronic notebook that can hold and display thousands of pages of information in 8x5"x11" format and can be used in work, home and educational environments. This could be a very good thing.



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