How do you define “paperless?” Are we ever really going to be “paperless?”

Even in the Star Wars world, there is not a complete banishment of paper. They don’t call it a piece paper… they call it a flimsy.

So, if in an advanced society, paper doesn’t go away, can we ever hope to be rid of paper?

I would imagine, at the earliest, it will be a few generations to see paper go the way of the typewriter (although there are still some of those still around, too).

When we talk about “paperless,” I believe that it is a misnomer. In my opinion, paperless is simply a euphemism for automating our processes. By reducing our dependences on paper through a workflow we can increase the efficiency by which we work.I think that “paperless” really means “less paper” and not “without paper.”

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