If one's life is at all realistic, the statement that paper will be gone is laughable.
- Sent mail for something requiring physical proof and evidence of delivery like court related correspondence.
- Sent fax to financial institution demanding medallion signature; they have an app but didn't work.
- Not for a job but for applying for credit, had to send in identifying information via mail.
- Any tax situation that is slightly complicated involves forms not available for eFile, guess what, paper forms.
- Still get tax forms in mail, it's a paper trail that won't disappear in 1, 2, 7, or 10 years and then have to pay $25 to retrieve; plus long-term safe, secure storage of readable data is difficult.
- Not sure what the difference is here; photocopiers are scanners.
- Still use checks for rent because landlords don't care to be raped by processor fees.
- Hotel sends paper WSJ and USA Today every day.
- Physical books, especially textbooks, are everywhere since eReaders can't render math worth sh*t; nobody reads anything serious, e.g. academic literature on eReaders, so it's print and mark up.
Paper is far from dead since there is no replacement for some of these things or the replacement is worse or expensive.
Ebooks are great on tablets (especially the 7" ones). I've never enjoyed reading comics on even a larger tablet. I've got a bunch of electronic graphic novels that I've been putting off reading, because I'm not looking forward to dealing with the tablet.
- Sent mail for something requiring physical proof and evidence of delivery like court related correspondence.
- Sent fax to financial institution demanding medallion signature; they have an app but didn't work.
- Not for a job but for applying for credit, had to send in identifying information via mail.
- Any tax situation that is slightly complicated involves forms not available for eFile, guess what, paper forms.
- Still get tax forms in mail, it's a paper trail that won't disappear in 1, 2, 7, or 10 years and then have to pay $25 to retrieve; plus long-term safe, secure storage of readable data is difficult.
- Not sure what the difference is here; photocopiers are scanners.
- Still use checks for rent because landlords don't care to be raped by processor fees.
- Hotel sends paper WSJ and USA Today every day.
- Physical books, especially textbooks, are everywhere since eReaders can't render math worth sh*t; nobody reads anything serious, e.g. academic literature on eReaders, so it's print and mark up.
Paper is far from dead since there is no replacement for some of these things or the replacement is worse or expensive.