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Information technology managers at 150 U.S. companies reported a spike in printing after they opened access to their firms' data networks, according to The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. Long e-mail messages and attachments tend to be printed, causing about a 40% jump in paper consumption when an office first gets e-mail. But e-mail also cuts down on workers' use of expensive overnight mail and courier services...
...give up their lease when it next expires. "I think I can have a much more profitable business and serve my clients more efficiently by having their documents scanned in and accessible anytime, no matter where I am," says Sharon, who now gives lectures on how to go paperless. "No fire, no flood, no terrible Sept. 11 tragedy would have done anything to my documents...
...company is working with tax authorities across Europe to make sure that its system can legally replace paper invoices, which companies are required by law to keep for up to 10 years. Britain's Customs and Excise office has already approved the paperless system...
...want to keep everything on paper, which is an understandable impulse. The FBI has always had a mystique about it. But the truth is it?s just another government bureaucracy. FBI agents hate it when you say that. But it?s true. This is the age of wired, paperless information - and the FBI needs to get up to speed...
...optical sensors. And these are more than just bells and whistles. In many new models, wireless chips improve efficiency by alerting vendors when a machine is running out of Pocari Sweat or chips. This generation will also be able to hawk digital wares, from music and movies to paperless train tickets. And that promises to fundamentally remake the business by allowing vendors of electronic goods to bypass Japan's complicated distribution system by restocking their machines from a remote computer. "With the new machines," says Mitsubishi Research Institute analyst Yoshihiko Tamemoto, "logistical work will be replaced by the network...