Time to Kill Another Tree

I remember back in the eighties when the portable, and desktop, computers arrived on the scene. I was a Systems Analyst for a large computer manufacturer and I was lucky enough to get to use one of the first laptop computer, made by Panasonic. Well, that one I wouldn't want to have to use on my lap since it was quite heavy and the screen was built into the box and the lid was the keyboard. It did close up and you could carry it from place to place but nothing even close compared to what we have today, by a country mile and then some. The age of the paperless office has arrived they said. They even started a line of paperless office software that would store and sort with bells and whistles, everything to prevent the need for paper! What did everybody go right out and do after saving their documents? They printed out back-ups of the documents in case the computer crashed at the end of the month or week or year. Trust is a beautiful thing and people need to trust the software to do it's work. Make software back-ups and limit the waste to a diskette. Print when you need to and not just for the sake of printing it. I used to do end-of-month reporting and I could have used this s/w then. Printing a thousand pages just to see a few of them is stupid, but people hold those security blankets tightly. Hope the trees hold out!