Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Life without Paper- Think for a Moment

We live in a world of paper. Without paper our lives would be unthinkable. Or almost unimaginable. We can, of course, imagine it, as we can imagine everything, for the great authors and artists and artists have taught us to imagine, in their books, and their artwork, and through their music. We have been trained by them, educated by them on paper, and through paper, and by paper to imagine. So it’s easy to think about a world without paper. Like being dead, or certainly not having been born. We arise, wash, and go to the toilet – though without toilet paper, certainly. We enjoy a bowl of cereals, un packaged, normally. Tea: no bags. Coffee: no filter. We do not buy a magazine on our way to the train station: there are no magazines to buy. And, furthermore, we have no money. So, no lottery ticket. No eating gum: a wrapper. No ticket for the train – which, anyway, has no schedule. We’ll think, just for fun, that there is a train, and a train place, and a house, and an workplace or office to go to – despite the fact that without plans and schedules and surveys and backs-of-envelopes and blue-prints and patents and maps and graphs, all of this is of course highly unlikely, no..................read more at>>>>>>>>>>>>Life without Paper- Think for a Moment

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