Persistent Paper: The Myth of "Going Paperless"

The Myth of the Paperless Office

Ch. 1 – Introduction Discusses the origins of the myth. The phrase ‘paperless office’ is traced to Xerox PARC, although they trace the idea of replacing paper-based methods of working all the way back to the 1800s with Samual Morse’s idea of electronic mail. They mention other precendents for trying to do away with paper, moving forward in time from that early date, including digital libraries ...

The Myth of the Paperless Office

Toolkit support for vision-based tangible interfaces

Studies of office workers, web designers, and oral historians have found that even in the digital age (and sometimes because of it), we are using paper more and more. The paperless office is a myth. The paper-saturated office is not a failing of digital technology; it is a validation of our expertise with the physical world. We use paper, and writing surfaces more generally, in their myriad for...

The Position of Myth in Frazer’s Anthropological Theory

George James Frazer (1854-1941), the spiritual father of myth-ritual school, was bred up in the British tradition of empiricism. Believing in the evolutionary process of culture, Frazer mainly focused his attention on explaining such epistemic forms of thought as magic, religion and science. Accordingly, while interpreting the processes through which magic leads to religion and finally evolves ...

Reducing Paper Use through Wider Deployment of New Office Technologies in Business Organizations in Enugu Capital City, Nigeria

The myth of green and paperless office may still be with us but there are today new technologies corporate organizations can deploy to significantly reduce paper use in order to cut cost and become more environmentally-friendly. This study determined the extent organizations in Enugu Capital City deploy new office technologies for reducing paper use. The population comprised 186 employees made ...