Anonymous
12-17-2004, 12:03 AM
Have any of you read The Myth of the Paperless Office (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/026269283X/qid=1103269952/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-0102573-1808856?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)?
Here's an interesting article that sums it up pretty well
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?020325crbo_books
Kidd writes that many of the people she talked to use the papers on their desks as contextual cues to "recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay" when they come in on a Monday morning, or after their work has been interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look at the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the contents of our brains.
Here's an interesting article that sums it up pretty well
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?020325crbo_books
Kidd writes that many of the people she talked to use the papers on their desks as contextual cues to "recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay" when they come in on a Monday morning, or after their work has been interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look at the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the contents of our brains.