As I was writing a paper for my English 110 class I noticed how much a computer saves me from destroying countless trees. If you are anything like me, you make countless rough drafts of your work, which isn’t environmentally friendly. By using my computer it saves me from wasting trees. This thought sparked my question of, how much paper do huge corporations use daily and how can technology sustain our environment?
Going paperless would affect your office in numerous ways. Paper needs a storage place, which leads to expensive filing cabinets. Once these filing cabinets accumulate and you run out of office space you will be forced to rent extra space to store your files. This obviously calls for more money and resources, but with the use of computers this could be completely prevented.
Not only do you deal with the cost of paper but also with the cost of ink, mailing and faxing. On-line files and data could save these expenses. Storing, sorting, copying and mailing steals countless office hours. By simply clicking a mouse that time can be turned into valuable work time. We can use technology to do insurance billing. We can set our fax machines to print only things we want in hand and most of all use digital document-storage. Why don’t we scan forms onto a computer instead of copying everything and storing them in filing cabinets? Hey, even replace the paper towel in your office washroom with an air dryer. Together we can sustain our environment.
Ecomp 355 has opened my eyes to the positive effects of the technology wave.
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The idea of digital storage for documents is good, but computers crash, files get lost or misfiled, or you may not have access to your computer when you need a file. But, hard copies also get lost, misfiled, or damaged. Corporations do use digital storage. My wife’s company scans all documents on some sort of digital storage, but they also keep a hard copy for back up. The digital copy is good for looking something up quickly from anywhere, but is is not 100% reliable. Paper is also not 100% reliable either. I think that using both digital storage and paper storage is crucial for important documents. I had my computer’s hard drive die last year and I lost everything. I now back up my computer to an external hard drive and print all documents which are important to keep for the future. The problem with this is that I am now gaining a huge number of paper files.
Darin
well its funny that you say that because when I was completing my final internship this past fall, our school staff had a guest speaker come into the school to speak to us about the new mac book carts our school got (2), and he was teaching us new things on what to do with the kids with the mac books, so in this conference/workshop on the new technology, he informed us with the fact that printers, faxes, and paper is going to be obsolete soon within a school system because kids/teachers now and days would not need to communicate their work through paper/writing because soon every kid will have access to lap tpos/internet, etc on hand. For example, when a student finishes his/her assignment in class, he/she can instantly mail his assignment to their teacher, then teacher can email back the assignment with it graded.