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027 10 February 2004

While the world's pornographers and money lenders have made massive profits from paperless business models, the paperless office remains a popular joke.

The superior sales of digital cameras for domestic photography leads away from envelopes of acidic smelling prints on a resin laminate which we still fondly call "paper" to a new photo album - seen in the camera itself. The paperless model appears easier to use, gives instant gratification, the image luminance is brighter, modern in its perfect pixel range of colours.

Sentimentally I think of how picture albums transferred to a hard drive are likely to have a short half life, small histories lost with each new computer. But the alternative, the owning of books has always been a luxury and lets acknowledge that paper books will not be packed as space luggage.

 

liverpool 2004

 

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