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CUTTING WASTE. Perot would replace the tax-collecting system at the IRS with a "fair and paperless" computerized mechanism. He supports a law prohibiting deficit spending by the government...
Reliance is not alone. Since the early 1960s, when assorted gurus proclaimed the imminent arrival of the Information Age, businesses and consumers have been eagerly awaiting its coming -- and with it, the "paperless" office and the "cashless" society. Among the techno-prophets' predictions: home shopping, electronic libraries, personal computers on every desk, soaring worker productivity, uninterrupted growth. As a result, thousands of companies invested heavily in information technology in hopes of gaining a competitive edge. Other firms, including hardware manufacturers and software developers, placed equally large bets on supplying the markets for home and office automation...
...advance billing. While more people are working with their heads rather than their hands, and more than a third of the nation's $5.5 trillion GNP is generated by ideas rather than manufactured goods, white-collar productivity is no higher now than it was 30 years ago. The paperless office remains a secretary's fantasy. Paper-killing technologies like electronic mail and voice % processors go largely unused -- too complicated -- while paper-generating devices like fax machines and copiers are used to the point of abuse. As for the cashless society, most consumers have thumbed down such gee-whiz financial services...
...same direction, we're taking the same path to get there, but we're using different equipment," said Kevin Kinsella, administrative assistant to the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, which is now in the process of updating its registry system. "Basically what we're looking for is a paperless society...
...ironies of Roth's career is that his style is so immediate, his sense of phrasing so vital, that readers cannot be blamed for blurring the distinction between the writer and his creation. Even Claire Bloom, with whom Roth shares a "paperless marriage," sometimes slips and says "you" when referring to Zuckerman. Bloom, 52, and the novelist, 50, have been together seven years. Roth's only marriage ended when his wife, Margaret Martinson, was killed in a 1968 car accident. The couple had been separated for five years; they had no children...