This is a Good one . . . it’s short(30 seconds) - be sure to watch until the end .
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Paperless Society
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Love it, reminds me when I told the Bank Manager who was trying to get me to go Paperless, What you gonna wipe your ass with.
Also being in the printing and mailing industry the notion of trying to reduce paper so that less trees are cut down is laughable. There has never been a tree in history cut down to make paper. Paper is a waste by-product from the lumber industry and is the most recycled item on the planet. Up here we get charged $2 per bill we receive in the mail to "cover costs" and reduce paper use, the government has been lobbied incessantly to change this but to no avail.
As a guy who came of age on a manual portable typewriter with carbons and Correcto-type (PM me if you
don't now what those are) and whose work place and eventually home computer experiences verged on
nightmares (it was so bad I received a small cash settlement for some abuses suffered) my attachment to
paper is its own patriotism. Here I am, online, going along with the present as best I can. But I can't tell
you how wrenching it was for people who didn't grow up with this technology. The techs and training people
came across so smarty pants, even when I knew they were sincere and trying to help. The t-shirt and jeans
brigade supplanting the jacket and tie crew in the cubicles. It was not pretty. Who can live without a computer
for re-writing, but how I miss the percussion solo of late-night writing on my trusty Smith Corona (that's
a company that made manual typewriters in the days of yore).
don't now what those are) and whose work place and eventually home computer experiences verged on
nightmares (it was so bad I received a small cash settlement for some abuses suffered) my attachment to
paper is its own patriotism. Here I am, online, going along with the present as best I can. But I can't tell
you how wrenching it was for people who didn't grow up with this technology. The techs and training people
came across so smarty pants, even when I knew they were sincere and trying to help. The t-shirt and jeans
brigade supplanting the jacket and tie crew in the cubicles. It was not pretty. Who can live without a computer
for re-writing, but how I miss the percussion solo of late-night writing on my trusty Smith Corona (that's
a company that made manual typewriters in the days of yore).
In printing also, heard paperless over 30 years ago. More trees today than when Columbus got lost over here. Greater marketing efforts from the tree lovers (which I am a real one) than reality. More problems from electronic devices than a renewable, natural recyclable product like paper. & paper doesn't crash. Show that to the IRS.
I was wary when I gave up my manual Smith Corona for the electric SC (which I got for free with books for green stamps saved from gasoline purchases back in 1964).
Loaded with trepidation I finally got an Apple in the eighties and have reluctantly learned to use it....more or less.
I don't miss the hours spent trying to fix misspellings etc but the sound of the typewriter brings back so many creative memories. Ah, the past, MY past.
Loaded with trepidation I finally got an Apple in the eighties and have reluctantly learned to use it....more or less.
I don't miss the hours spent trying to fix misspellings etc but the sound of the typewriter brings back so many creative memories. Ah, the past, MY past.
I have been in information technology for 40 years and we haven't reduced the amount of paper used by one sheet.
The old culture of submitting material in writing to paper had its plusses and minuses. I think we will lose vast blocks
of history to our technology and its ever-changing platforms. Letters that were simply meant to keep a family far away
informed remain invaluable historical insights. I'm afraid that much less will be left our our electronic trails. They're
good for spying on people and intruding in their lives, but when future generations come to look back on our times,
I doubt there will be as much left, or what's left will be selective and misrepresentative. One technological note: During the
Civil War, the officers were (as always) better off, so they had new-fangled fountain pens for writing letters home. The
ink faded and many of those letters were lost. However, the near-poverty enlisted soldiers just had miserable pencils to
write with, and those old lead or graphite scratchings hold up over the centuries, and those letters have lasted as long as
the paper, which is better than you'd think.
of history to our technology and its ever-changing platforms. Letters that were simply meant to keep a family far away
informed remain invaluable historical insights. I'm afraid that much less will be left our our electronic trails. They're
good for spying on people and intruding in their lives, but when future generations come to look back on our times,
I doubt there will be as much left, or what's left will be selective and misrepresentative. One technological note: During the
Civil War, the officers were (as always) better off, so they had new-fangled fountain pens for writing letters home. The
ink faded and many of those letters were lost. However, the near-poverty enlisted soldiers just had miserable pencils to
write with, and those old lead or graphite scratchings hold up over the centuries, and those letters have lasted as long as
the paper, which is better than you'd think.
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