Affordances of Paper: Report on Phase I

Whatever happened to the paperless office? Look around almost any workplace and you will find paper is everywhere, competing for space alongside desktop computers, keyboards, monitors, and scanners those very same devices that were supposed to make paper obsolete. Far from replacing paper, the emergence of new, digital technologies has encouraged its proliferation, making it easier to create, print and copy paper documents. What is it about paper which makes it such an integral part of work? Does it explain why the paperless office has not yet arrived? Will it ever arrive?