The paperless office, ballyhooed as the imminent future by Business Week in 1975 has been notable largely for its non-occurrence. In fact the entire concept has been redefined as we come to recognize that, in many markets, paper is not being used less so much as it is being used differently. I will talk about the trends in paper use both in terms of volume and in applications. Paper has gone from a static repository to take on more active rolls at the on-ramp and off-ramps of the electronic web that connects us, the protection and security of our information as well as, increasingly a component of smart document systems. Through analysis of this data I will show how the technologies we are developing can and will materially change our relationship with print, information and document intensive work practices and services.
Stephen P. Hoover, "The revolution of print and our industry" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP24), 2008, pp 14 - 14, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2008.24.1.art00004_1