Paper’s real utility

I wanted to leave you with a feel-good thought for this weekend. To quote the Teach Paperless blog, “It’s not paper I’m against. I’m against the static idea of knowledge that paper so often represents.” Paper Airplane

Paper seems like such a necessary evil. It is really convenient, and honestly, it is the only “format” that has Sketchbeen around for centuries. And yet, paper is static, it can only belong in one folder at a time, and its contents cannot be searched (or found) easily. It takes up space, eats up trees and I can go on and on.

Wouldn’t we all love to be in a world where paper is used for it is really meant for. To quote the blog again, “…..  to do good stuff with paper. Like making airplanes. And footballs. All kinds of creative things..”

4 Responses to “Paper’s real utility”

  1. Marc Fors says:

    We share you passion for reducing paper. That’s one of the major reasons we built enthusem, to get people away from mailing a company brochure, sales proposal or technical literature to a lead or prospect – instead bring their attention to it with an enthusem mailer that links to the online document via code. It’s a unique way to bring offline attention to online documents. We’d love to talk to OfficeDrop about a mashup with our mailers pointing to OfficeDrop files. Your users might be interested.
    Thanks and keep up the good work.
    Marc

  2. Scott H. says:

    I just wanted to thank you very much for this enlightening article. I have already bookmarked your site, when I have more free time I am going to have to do some further reading. Well back to my dreaming of Panama or back to the books – I wonder which one is going to win out. :)

  3. Dagobert says:

    Definitely awesome post!

  4. Cominius says:

    Great post! Thanks very much for the info.


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