Paper: The Unavoidable Interface
I was wrong. We all were wrong.
In this digital era, what do you think is the life expectancy of technology like paper notepads? Do you dream of a future with a simple “Alexa, take note of this”? Or you are in the search of a frictionless way of taking notes or capturing text?
What if I tell you that the expected life expectancy of paper notepads in our daily lives is longer than an iPad, not to say “Alexa”.
iPads have been around in the face of the Earth for only a little more than ten years. Alexa is just a newborn in the tech world.
Paper notebooks have been with us for at least six hundred years.
The Lindy effect is a concept that says the older a technology is, the longer is likely to be around in the future. Under this idea, it’s more probable that we’ll still see and use paper notebooks in the next hundred years than iPads or Alexas.
The dream that never was
The dream born with the rise of the personal computer. In the nineteen seventies with the appearance of computer screens and digitalization, the idea of a paperless office began to form in some companies and businesses.
Of course, there was a big reduction in the use of paper in almost every industry, but nothing…
