The moderator has delivered a final verdict. Chris Jablonski: Sorry folks, mashed tree pulp is going the way of the dinosaurs in a world where digitization has a tyrannosaurus-sized appetite.

Thirty years ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming paperless society. Today, ...

The death of paper has been greatly exaggerated–so far. Last year, for example, the Treasury Department sent tens of millions of stimulus checks via the venerable United States Postal Service. No ...

Hardly a day goes by when we do not receive a message from some organization proclaiming with great self-satisfaction that it is shifting to “paperless” communications. The message is often ...

After more than 45 years in the printing and copying business, Jay Watson says the paperless society still remains a ways off. In fact, the coming of the Internet, email, pagers, wireless phones and ...

Predictions of a paperless society have been bandied about for close to half a century, driven by an unbridled faith that technology would eliminate the need for something as old-fashioned as ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thirty years ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming ...

As part of ZDNet's Great Debate Series, I had the chance to go head to head with Chris Jablonski on the topic of the paperless society. His take? We're right on the edge, with virtually ever segment ...

THIRTY YEARS ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming paperless society. Today, ...

A paperless society? One of the reasons that might be so far off is that people love to touch books as they read them. Back in my college days, 1978 B.C. (Before Computers), textbooks, lecturers, and ...