As software's been eating the world, I've started to feel like we're losing out on the benefits of paper, in both personal and business settings:
* Fairly durable
* A security violation requires physical access to the paper storage
* Flexibility - you can take a pen and draw anywhere on paper - and it will make sense to other readers without having to write custom software
* Flexibility 2 - you can organize bits of paper any way you like
Having had my identity compromised through third parties (Premera, Experian), the security aspects are particularly compelling.
It also feels like a lot of the business innovation credited to software could have been possible using paper systems, e.g. reading about the Toyota Production System, it seemed more about process innovation than anything to do with software.
* Fairly durable * A security violation requires physical access to the paper storage * Flexibility - you can take a pen and draw anywhere on paper - and it will make sense to other readers without having to write custom software * Flexibility 2 - you can organize bits of paper any way you like
Having had my identity compromised through third parties (Premera, Experian), the security aspects are particularly compelling.
It also feels like a lot of the business innovation credited to software could have been possible using paper systems, e.g. reading about the Toyota Production System, it seemed more about process innovation than anything to do with software.