[Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption?

[Conor Schaefer]

Yes, and it's interesting to see how hard companies are trying to 
capitalize on that shift. Traditional software suites had the focus on 
paper production (Microsoft Word) and were later employed for production 
of electronically disseminated documents, but the newer wave of suites 
(e.g. Writely/Google Docs) is obviously geared toward electronic 
documents much more so than paper ones. For instance, I have used W/GD 
in a while, but I remember it did not have a "traditional" viewing 
layout, where the user could see the edges of a sheet of paper (the 
default view for suites like MSWord).

I think that watching these kinds of signs helps one to make the 
argument that while the transition to a "paperless office" might not 
have arrived yet, there is certainly a lot of percolating business 
chatter about it. Whether that itself and the economic pressures 
attached to it could induce the transition is the subject of another 
discussion. ;)

Conor

Constantine, Norman wrote:
> Check out subways and buses.....more people are listening than reading
> everyday. There is a huge sea change coming at the net generation takes
> over the work force.
>
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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Golder, Scott A.
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>
> One fine place to start is "The Myth of the Paperless Office" by Sellen
> and Harper.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Paperless-Office-Abigail-Sellen/dp/0262194643
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Golder
> Information Dynamics Lab, HP Labs
> scott.golder at hp.com
> 1.650.857.2020
>  
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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Hang Ryeol Na
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:35 PM
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> Subject: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption?
>
> Dear all, 
>  
> I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on
> paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. 
> As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or
> increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill
> and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the
> increase and what others to the decrease. 
>  
> Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data
> showing the effect of internet on paper consumption?
>  
> If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for
> example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to
> online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis
> is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost
> in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and
> failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper
> consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not. 
>  
> Thanks for your consideration. 
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> Hang Ryeol Na
>  
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