The full playbook is available, in color, eliminating the need for paper versions.
Even as payments become increasingly electronic, the need for paper checks persists.
Some of the new machines eliminate the need for paper records entirely.
The news media must not lose sight of the most pressing need in our democracy today: the need for paper audit trails to verify electronic voting.
The scheme's environmental credentials even stretch to using products due to be recycled as the tickets for the draw, removing any need for paper.
For its part, Tesco said its Brand Guarantee offered an immediate price match at the tills, without the need for paper coupons.
And Breedlove's 16 employees are in their 20s, native to Facebook and instant-messaging and baffled by the need for paper.
In 1945, the computer pioneer Vannevar Bush imagined what he called a "memex"—a mechanized library and filing cabinet, on which an office worker would store all his relevant information without the need for paper files at all.
Although I'm a strong advocate of the need for paper audit trails as part of our voting process, I'm disappointed to see your editorial touting optical scan machines as the preferred way to achieve this goal.
In theory, it seems simple enough; computers and the Internet should obviate the need for paper, and credit and debit cards and electronic bill pay should make cash superfluous.
