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As long as there’s a viable method for archiving legal documents, it’s a great idea. However, throughout the country, varying cities, counties and states have different requirements for legal documentation. Many require an original hard copy of said documents. This may not necessarily be limited to legal documents in some cases. My point being, in many such cases, you simply cannot go paperless. Still, an electronic archive is tremendously advantageous, provided you can pull the hard archive as needed.
(The Canadian Treasury Board in Ottawa has already gone iPad and paperless for their board meetings and found it very doable and useful... and is now considering outfitting all 6,743 Canadian treasury employees with iPads to go entirely paperless within their offices! Swordmaker)
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Nah. You can’t make paper airplanes out of them.
Replace paper? Not a chance. I don’t know anybody that can type on a fake keyboard with anything near the speed that they can scribble notes on a notepad.
Now it is the same with the iPad. All the old cranks yapping about the superiority of the soon-to-be-extinct netbooks and laptops. Hell, why not just go all the way and bring back the typewriters and carbon paper while we are at it!
Fact is, while many are dismissing the iPad as a simple toy, the iPad is poised to become the most revolutionary product of the century.
Simple words cannot define the power that is the iPad. Only to own one is to truly know what a magnificent product it is. All others must invent reasons not to own one until they too, eventually succumb.
Apple is on their way to selling over one BILLION iPads over the next few years and that does not include the hundreds of millions of iPad-like devices that other companies will soon sell such as Samsung and HP.
When all is said and done, iPad will be recognized as not only the greatest consumer product in the history of human civilization but the greatest business tool ever invented as well.
As for me, I am waiting for the second generation (only weeks away) and until then, I am drooling with envy.
Android tablets are cheaper and would do exactly the same thing. Netting even greater savings over time.
As far as confidential stuff it seems a bad idea to let it be downloaded to a device that will be taken off-site and almost certainly used for private matters of some type.