TV vs. Reading et al

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

David Casseres wrote:
> On the other hand it's extremely important to note, as you do, that 
> Xerox is to this day a company whose main interest is in putting marks 
> on pieces of paper.  The fundamental idiocy (look out, here comes my
> rant) of the first 10-15 years of personal computing was the notion that
> what the user is trying to produce is a piece of paper with marks on it. 

Leading to our present condition where we waste reams of paper, orders of
magnitude greater than before PCs and Xerox machines, rather than the
"paperless office" (remember that?) they used to promise us.  As one small
example, probably we all know folks who print out virtually every e-mail
they get (with, of course, the cover page preceeding it, if you're on a
network).

	Steve Maas