Going Paperless

Perusing some of my older archives, I have realized that the quality of my posts has steadily declined in wittiness. I vow to improve this. Back to the drawing board!

Damn this digital world. I can't even find a notepad around here. What's up with that?

5 comments:

Master Bull said...

Our world is far from paperless. If anything, the more paperless we try to go, the more paper we generate? I can't think of how many trees I have killed with the advent of high-speed laser printers.

However, if you want to develop some wit, perhaps you should start talking to a Brit or just watch a few Pierce Brosnan movies...

Ben said...

Some five to ten years ago, I read a statistic that went like this: in the years (after computers came on the scene) that they expected paper consumption to halve, we had actually increased it ten-fold. Yowza, eh?

I don't think that's the kind of wit I want. I re-watched The Holy Grail (Monty Python) recently, and I must have missed something that I once understood. I didn't "get it" anymore. It wasn't really that funny to me. I mean, sure, a chuckle here and there, but no real impression afterwards.

S said...

> in the years (after computers came
> on the scene) that they expected
> paper consumption to halve, we had
> actually increased it ten-fold.

With the advent of computers, I imagine that productivity went way up too. If you're doing more, it would make sense that your paper usage would go up as well.

Also, when you have slow or unstable machines like the first few generations of computers, you tend to want a hard copy of everything. But I've gotten to the point where I keep most stuff online only.

Now that machines have become more portable and people can bring their laptops/PDAs/etc. with them, there will be less of a need for hard copies.

Master Bull said...

But Ben, think of how good you'd look in a $5,000 Brioni suit!

Ben said...

Heck, I look good in a $300 Kenneth Cole suit.

(Wait, I think my wit is back! Thanks, man!)