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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
Computer
Sheets
Paper
Email
Duplicated
Documents
Swamped
Make
Computers
Memos
Time
Copies
Wasteful
People
Hundreds
Flawless
Managers
Sheet
Errors
Endlessly

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