http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2006/06/lawyers-continue-to-move-toward-the-papermore-office/ Legal technology, technology law and other musings. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:08:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://denniskennedy.com/blog/2006/06/lawyers-continue-to-move-toward-the-papermore-office/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Brett Miller Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:17:12 +0000 http://denniskennedy_com.innosoftware.net/?p=1095#comment-127 Dennis,
Negroponte’s book “Being Digital” was one of my early influences in trying to figure out how to apply technology to get things done “better”. I must admit that I bought into the idea of ‘paperless’ almost completely.
As you illustrate here, though, in many ways ‘paperless’ really just means shifting the burden of actually printing the paper. The data is transmitted as bits, but still ends up as atoms once it gets there. Rest assured, this is not limited to the legal profession.
I’ve seen many cases over the past 10 years where one part of a corporate hierarchy (usually at the staff level) has been able to show cost savings because of reduced printing and shipping costs while at the same time the line level shows increased costs because they are now faced with the burden of printing, etc.

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