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For a long while, it seemed like the "paperless office" would never arrive

Throughout the 80s and 90s, as companies adopted computers, the amount of office paper *exploded*

Why? Because people were communicating more and more -- but wanted paper copies of those reports, emails, memos

Paper was superior to screens in nearly every way

But!

That may finally have changed

My essay: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/the-paperless-office-is-finally-arriving-92ce060e6070

A "friend" link in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-paperless-office-is-finally-arriving-92ce060e6070?sk=5530b921b8aaa01ae899a0a01f6f0c87