Picture the scene.
Your office has gone totally green. By this I mean you are effectively sitting in a small forest, the fronds from an overhanging tree are traipsing delicately across your keyboard, a doe-eyed rabbit is nibbling some grass peacefully by your desk and the sound of a small waterfall in the corner of the office (which powers your computer) can be heard in the background.
Is this the future that we are aiming towards? Of course not, this is just me being silly.
But the point I am trying to make is just how 'green' can we go? Will there ever be a point where we no longer have printers or notepads and will the term 'paperwork' become obsolete? With the rise of incredible technology such an iPad's and Blackberry Playbook's, is it so impossible to imagine that we will swap notepads for Apple 'notebooks'? Instead of idly doodling notes from a meeting with your pen and paper, you will instead use your stylus on an iPad. Instead of printing off a booklet to read as you rush to a meeting, you will download it onto your Blackberry Playbook and read it from there.
A prime example of this technology surge was the Amazon Kindle. As a commuter on a train, I have noticed the majority of people who used to have books only a year ago, now have a Kindle. There are still a few die hard traditionalists of course, me being one of them, who like the smell and feel of a book (even if it is a hardback version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that weighs a ton and makes fitting anything else in your bag impossible) but most people now sit there turning the pages of their Kindle, their faces looking amused at my actual physical page turning.
10 years ago, the idea of a handheld computer that you simply use to read books from would have been laughable. Is it so difficult to imagine that 10 years from now, our offices may well be paper free?
-Emily
Picture credit: Socfx
I'd be interested in hearing. The TOS seems rather clear that it is not unless expressly approved by Amazon. I guess if the library got it in writing then they would be ok.
Posted by: 2012 Moncler | January 17, 2012 at 19:19