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Paperless office
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The paperless office was a visionary or publicist's slogan, supposed to apply to the office of the future. The suggestion was that office automation would make paper redundant for routine tasks such as record-keeping and bookkeeping. It came to prominence in the days of the introduction of the personal computer. While the prediction of a PC on every desk was remarkably prescient (or, regarding it as marketing talk, very effective), the paperless nature of office work was less prophetic. Printers and photocopiers have made it much easier to produce documents in bulk, word-processing has deskilled secretarial work involved in writing those documents, and paper proliferates.
Paperless office is also a metaphor for the touting of new technology in terms of 'modernity' rather than its actual suitability to purpose.
An early prediction of the paperless office was made in a Business Week article in 1975.
- "The Office of the Future" in Business Week, no. 2387, 30 June 1975, pp 48-70.
- The Elusive Paperless Office -- article on Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site
- [1] Consumers now like to keep their information online
- The Saga of the paperless office -- articles on a chiropractors struggle to make his office paperless
