Do you remember your childish drawings pinned up on the wall? It made you feel special didn't it?
As kids, seeing our crayola scrawls hung up in a place of honor - the fridge, maybe? - validated our efforts. We felt appreciated, loved. And I'll bet you even still have some of them! I still have a drawing I made for my grandfather who died of cancer when I was 12; it hung by his bed until the end.
All it took was four-year old Levi and his question, "Daddy, why did you recycle all my pictures?"
to give
Stephen Shankland pause.
Shankland writes for
CNET's
DeepTech column, and his post "
My so-called paperless life" outlines 5 steps you can take to eliminate paper from your life. It's all pretty straightforward until Step 5:
Save what truly has value. Stephen has hit on the crux of the issue when he says:
"I love history, I've accumulated plenty of items that, although
mundane at the time of their creation, accumulated some historic or
sentimental value. The guest book entries (Thomas A. Edison!) at Hermit
Creek Camp in the Grand Canyon where my great-grandfather worked, for
example, or my grandfather's Depression-era daily expense log.
The big question for me is how close electronic documents will come to holding the same value as their physical counterparts."
There are simply some things that cannot be delivered electronically! And we can't always know which ones.
All the best,
Gail Nickel-Kailing, Managing Director
Business Strategies Etc.
Chalkbot
Won't be long before we have the 
Gartner