I seem to remember them spouting that “paperless office” bull**** as far back as the 1970’s.
“I seem to remember them spouting that “paperless office” bull**** as far back as the 1970’s.”
At my second engineering job Honeywell started a “paperless” factory for their largest military production contract ever. I read the contract and went to my boss. “It says here we’ll maintain paper copies of these records for fifteen years. There are no records. The assumption is we’ll never see these units again. No provisions have been made to collect and store this data.” They started printing out each computer record. I did a fast calculation and discovered over the contract they’d fill several large warehouses and the implication was these records would be accessible. They were moved off the floor, into boxes and eventually into warehouses. Accessing a particular record was impossible. (Oh, and let me tell you the brass is not happy with anybody who points out the flaw in their thinking.)