In the mid-1970s the concept of the "paperless office of the future" was in vogue. The premiss was that in the not-too-distant future there would be no need for pen and paper because all documentation would be generated on, and transmitted by, a network of computer terminals that had been placed on all office desks. Up until just recently, the idea received much derision. More paper is produced now than in any time in history. If anything, the presence of computers has increased the usage of paper, as anyone who has had to wade through a long run of computer printouts can attest.
American businesses produce close to one trillion pages of paper a year. That is more than enough to blanket the surface of the earth. With the mounting concerns about deforestation, the erosion of the rain forest, and the mounting waste disposal crisis, finding ways to conserve paper has become imperative.
To further support the need for an alternative to paper, surveys have shown that it typically costs US $25,000 to fill a four-drawer file cabinet and US $2,160 to maintain that cabinet for a year. About 3 per cent of all documents are incorrectly filed or are lost, and the average cost to recover a document is around $120. On average, an executive spends a total of about four weeks per year waiting for documents to be located[1].
With the dramatic improvement in personal computer technology, along with a large reduction in the cost, the concept of the paperless office has become once again viable. A paperless office has become once again viable. A paperless office can be considered in terms of an integrated personal computer environment that offers a solution to the problems of creating, storing, managing, manipulating, and disseminating information.
In the mid-1970s the concept of the "paperless office of the future" was in vogue. The premiss was that in the not-too-distant future there would be no need for pen and paper because all documentation would be generated on, and transmitted by, a network of computer terminals that had been placed on all office desks. Up until just recently, the idea received much derision. More paper is produced now than in any time in history. If anything, the presence of computers has increased the usage of paper, as anyone who has had to wade through a long run of computer printouts can attest.
American businesses produce close to one trillion pages of paper a year. That is more than enough to blanket the surface of the earth. With the mounting concerns about deforestation, the erosion of the rain forest, and the mounting waste disposal crisis, finding ways to conserve paper has become imperative.
To further support the need for an alternative to paper, surveys have shown that it typically costs US $25,000 to fill a four-drawer file cabinet and US $2,160 to maintain that cabinet for a year. About 3 per cent of all documents are incorrectly filed or are lost, and the average cost to recover a document is around $120. On average, an executive spends a total of about four weeks per year waiting for documents to be located[1].
With the dramatic improvement in personal computer technology, along with a large reduction in the cost, the concept of the paperless office has become once again viable. A paperless office has become once again viable. A paperless office can be considered in terms of an integrated personal computer environment that offers a solution to the problems of creating, storing, managing, manipulating, and disseminating information.
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In the mid-1970s the concept of the "paperless office of the future" was in vogue. The premiss was that in the not-too-distant future there would be no need for pen and paper because all documentation would be generated on, and transmitted by, a network of computer terminals that had been placed on all office desks. Up until just recently, the idea received much derision. More paper is produced now than in any time in history. If anything, the presence of computers has increased the usage of paper, as anyone who has had to wade through a long run of computer printouts can attest.
American businesses produce close to one trillion pages of paper a year. That is more than enough to blanket the surface of the earth. With the mounting concerns about deforestation, the erosion of the rain forest, and the mounting waste disposal crisis, finding ways to conserve paper has become imperative.
To further support the need for an alternative to paper, surveys have shown that it typically costs US $25,000 to fill a four-drawer file cabinet and US $2,160 to maintain that cabinet for a year. About 3 per cent of all documents are incorrectly filed or are lost, and the average cost to recover a document is around $120. On average, an executive spends a total of about four weeks per year waiting for documents to be located[1].
With the dramatic improvement in personal computer technology, along with a large reduction in the cost, the concept of the paperless office has become once again viable. A paperless office has become once again viable. A paperless office can be considered in terms of an integrated personal computer environment that offers a solution to the problems of creating, storing, managing, manipulating, and disseminating information.
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