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| Last Updated: Friday, November 10, 2006 | 9:30 AM ET
CBC News A new report by Statistics Canada puts to rest predictions that the paperless office would be a 21st-century reality, finding instead that paper consumption has doubled over 20 years. The surge in paper use for printing and writing alone between 1983 and 2003 was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the use of communication technologies such as the telephone and e-mail, the study released Friday found. The report, titled "Our lives in digital times," found that traditional retail businesses have nothing to fear from e-commerce. Although online sales quadrupled between 2001 and 2004, that increase still represents just one per cent of total retail sales. During the same period the number of retailers, their employees and the amount of retail space rose in Canada. The study also found that business travel appears to have increased alongside the popularization of internet and videoconferencing technology. |
Doesn't that suck, because of our advance in tech, we actually have a better access to copying sheets of paper.....
