Digital Documents Quotes

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

I still like the physicality of papers.

Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.