Digital workflows take time to setup. The most naive implementations are to use computers as fancy Xerox machines by printing, editing on paper, and scanning in

Digital workflows take time to setup. The most naive implementations are to use computers as fancy Xerox machines by printing, editing on paper, and scanning in. The next step is to stop printing and keep it on the screens. Like how paperless bills are the exact same documents but they get to save paper, postage, and mailroom staff costs. They have still constrained themselves to the features of paper. Page dimensions, each copy can only be worked on by one person at a time and the resulting version conflicts, and manual review. Finally there’s terminals that make no pretensions as to ever exporting natively to print and can exploit automated processing and data transfer APIs.