Just Sarin

this joke that came in one of the mailers to me got me thinking about the paperless world that we're approaching...

 

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WORKING as a computer instructor for an adult-education program at a community college, I am keenly aware of the gap in computer knowledge between my younger and older students. My observations were confirmed the day a new student walked into our library area and glanced at the encyclopedia volumes stacked on a bookshelf. "What are all these books?" he asked. Somewhat surprised, I replied that they were encyclopedias. "Really?" he said. "Someone printed out the whole thing?"

--Contributed to "All In a Day's Work"

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looking around me, i find it quite hard to believe that India is making much progress towards it. definitely bharti ain't doing much - though we have paper conservation brochures splashed all over the office... and the photo copiers and printers are working over time trying to keep up with the demands being placed on them.

 

the biggest plus on convserving paper would definitely have to be the internet - with so much porn out there, i wonder how much sales of playboy/penthouse paper edition would have dipped - though i'm sure it would have made it all up in the online edition anyway.

 

guess with india also moving towards online submission of tax returns, we can hope that soon the government will adopt a more digital way of working.