Paperless Society: Fact or Fiction?

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This paper seeks to answer the question whether society can live without paper at all, with the dramatic increase in the use of computers. It shows that a few current trends support the idea of a paperless society such as the increasing amounts of people using the Internet. It has been estimated that there are 44,000 new users every day. This has led to people spending more time on-line, and has also caused the Web to impact a number of industries and as newspapers and periodicals. The paper also explores the use of CD-ROMS which are contributing to the situation, as they add a new visual and interactive element.

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"A few decades ago, the word document conjured up an image of a book, letter, or printed report. A decade ago, when word processors started being used instead of typewriters for documents, this definition changed to include textual computer files as well. In recent years, with the increased functionality of word processors and as other complementary products became available, the meaning of document included not only text but other information, including graphics, spreadsheets, fonts, sounds, movies, images, compressed or encoded text, and any other information that might be contained in a computer file."

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