Towards a future without paper: is your company ready for the revolution?

The last time we affirm that the translation is one of the industries with greater handling of documents.

Then, what would some of these companies consider working without paper?

As well, so remember, both customers as translators have handled large amounts of paper, printed numerous manuscripts, written billions of letters and long delivery and faxed in a countless number of documentation just readable.

Then, with all the documents that we receive digitally these days, ranging from text messages to messages of e-mail, electronic receipts, banking online, etc., why should consider converting them into paper on? first place? But it is more important to ask ourselves: what means do not use paper and what benefits might give us?

Is keep the palpable files on paper everything part of a nostalgic impulse opposite to modern trends?

To start, stop using paper already makes sense in many ways. The reasons for the transition include to improve the service to the customer, the flexibility to work remotely, the general increase of labor efficiency as a whole and the economic benefits, since the costs of stationery is drastically reduced and physical storage. Do not use more paper also facilitates access to information on the internet.

Plato would be pleased to know that we are just going to "the cloud", its "hypertension", where there are ideas in a perfect state of purity.

But, in order to adopt such an ideal, we, lewd, and worldly beings must overcome difficulties and convince detractors of non-paper model.

First, is any of our multiple printed productions worthwhile to be written on paper?Documents and electronic records are replacing their counterparts in role in many sectors.The translation industry needs more time to adapt. Although electronic records provide security support crucial information, can online documents meet with the same requirements and penitentiary benefits than the paper copies?

Well, this very important obstacle is related to the reason of the existence of records on paper.

For example, take a phrase that often is associated with the same Machiavelli during the Renaissance in Florence: 'Letter if face perch homo e deciduous'.

In Spanish: things are written because people can be trusted.

The memory fails. Sometimes, by the way. Important contracts, commitments, agreements and other similar documents should be a physical format that may be accessed in the event that questions arise.

Can electronic documents offer us the same warranty?

Although digital documents seem easier to falsify a prior, physical documents have been illegally reproduced for centuries, revealing the constant behind all this: the counterfeiters have also evolved to adapt to the era Digital, and as it was in the beginning, people can be trusted: homo deciduous, homo homing lupus e and so on

So, perhaps it is not a matter of not using paper after all, but become a less human industry as a whole.