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Hello, Paperless Office? - Interruption Management
Tiffany Wilken in her essay on the myth of the paperless office notes that, "paper usage seems to be increasing, rather than decreasing." So what's up?
Though we take advantage of digital technology for information searches, email, chats, and games, we don't quite trust it. We've all been burned by our computers at one time or another. In the back of our minds is the haunting doubt, "What if my computer crashes and I lose all my files?" A hard copy back-up still feels safer than something on hard-disk.
“The major obstacle to reaching the paperless office may be socio-technical, according to a report funded by the Electronic Document Systems Foundation. People like the smell of opening a book. We may simply prefer paper…” !Labels: information safety, modern life, office, paper, technology
Tiffany Wilken in her essay on the myth of the paperless office notes that, "paper usage seems to be increasing, rather than decreasing." So what's up?
Though we take advantage of digital technology for information searches, email, chats, and games, we don't quite trust it. We've all been burned by our computers at one time or another. In the back of our minds is the haunting doubt, "What if my computer crashes and I lose all my files?" A hard copy back-up still feels safer than something on hard-disk.
“The major obstacle to reaching the paperless office may be socio-technical, according to a report funded by the Electronic Document Systems Foundation. People like the smell of opening a book. We may simply prefer paper…” !
Labels: information safety, modern life, office, paper, technology
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