PAPERLESS JOY

Easy editing of documents also leads to the printing of multiple versions of the same document.

Furthermore, a paperless way of reading, researching and completing assignments would provide all the flexibilities mentioned in this book to both students and teachers.

Consider how much space would be freed up by eliminating all file cabinets in an office department.

A $50 hard drive with a capacity of 150 gigabytes has the equivalent storage capacity of 70 filing cabinets, which cost about $35,000 and need a space of about 1100 square feet (or 102 m2).

The American Consumer Institute, for example, has estimated that the Internet will save the world from approximately one billion tons of carbon emissions in the next ten years. This number can be broken down into the following carbon footprint-reducing features: · eCommerce will reduce emissions by 206 million tons of carbon, mainly in the form of

Two-gigabyte hard drive space can hold information equivalent to paper documents that would require a four-drawer filing cabinet.

For instance, an eBook that can be carried in a coat pocket can contain the equivalent of 400 books and other documents;

I gradually became 100 percent paperless, and now I only use paper when I am required to by regulations or the law.

they can produce a paperless generation of students who are acculturated to using ICT-based media instead of paper.