Or instead of handing over PADDs at all you can simply tell the intended recipient that the report is ready and they can tap the screen and read it on their own

Or instead of handing over PADDs at all you can simply tell the intended recipient that the report is ready and they can tap the screen and read it on their own customised display. They can call up multiple reports side by side, etc, etc. Yes, I understand and appreciate your points, and I, personally, use more paper and physical means of thinking and reasoning than many of my colleagues. That doesn't mean that the original ST people got it entirely right (as some people seem to claim). Handing over PADDs only gets part of the story right, and part of the story wrong. I look forward to the 24th century to see how these things really do get used. (And thanks for the reference to the Gladwell article - I'll read that later - it may get into my "Great Articles" library.)