What paperless society?

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  1. Robert Urbanek

    Robert Urbanek Active Member

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    Electronic records and media were supposed to liberate us from paperwork and paper recordkeeping, while conserving forests used to produce paper products.

    The promise rings hollow. Cybersecurity experts are suggesting states have a voter-verified paper record of every ballot cast to guard against Russian hackers. Many people are reluctant to do on-line banking, fearing some hacker will erase their accounts from the “cloud.” They want to be able to point to a paper statement and say, “This proves I have this money.”

    When I reorder medicine online, a message on the page says, “Print this for your records.”

    While newspaper print circulation has fallen, the New York Times still has a print circulation of more than 2.2 million.

    California lawmakers are considering a ban on paper receipts, although a lot of that paper could be saved if retailers simply stopped extending the receipts with coupons and survey requests. The proposal smacks more of a move to require shoppers to use smart phones, which would then have an electronic receipt.

    If we were truly in a paperless society, inkjet and laser printers would be as scarce as fax machines. Hardly. Best Buy, for example, has 276 different printers available. (They have only two combination fax-printers.)

    Should we completely dismiss the idea of a paperless society?
     
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    Blaster3 Well-Known Member

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    keyword being 'society', which means everyone in that society would need a smart device and a service provider (can't exclude anyone), until they make it law that everyone must have a smart device with internet service, no biz nor gov agency can force paperless transactions...
     

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