Paper is cheap today, but becomes a more expensive choice. You have to figure in the implied costs of transporting, storing, archiving, searching, referencing,

Paper is cheap today, but becomes a more expensive choice. You have to figure in the implied costs of transporting, storing, archiving, searching, referencing, etc. That's why, much as legitimate uses of paper have persisted, they have done so only within areas of local creation: paper tickers don't leave the air traffic bullpen, annotated papers don't leave the desks of their authors, post-it notes rarely leave the desk, etc. In short: software is failing creators, and that's where paper persists. After the process of creation --during recording, transportation, storage, reference, indexing, etc-- paper is already dead.