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　　The Myth of the Paperless Office
　　0 The concept of a paperless office grew with the advance of technology. It was
　　00 widely been claimed that as email became commonplace, people would stop
　　34 writing memos, keeping bulky files and bringing piles of paper to the meetings.
　　35 But the reality has in fact been quite the reverse, and paper, having already
　　36 survived five thousand years of technological change, and has proved remarkably
　　37 resilient. Worldwide, the amount of paper used for each year continues to
　　38 rise up, although statistics now show a slight reduction in the amount
　　39 it consumed in the UK. So, has technology failed in its aim to end the use of
　　40 paper? Max Bray, a business lecturer, thinks office workers still distrust computers.
　　41 ‘Technology is unreliable in most of people's eyes,’ he says. 'If you are sent an
　　42 important email, you are likely to print it, because there is always the
　　43 fear that it might have get deleted.’ In contrast, Paul Blunt, a marketing
　　44 manager for desktop products, who says there has been significant progress in
　　45 automating a wide range of tasks, even though the transition between has been more of an evolution than a revolution.