Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We seem to think that everything will be on the screen and we don’t need to use pieces of paper.

Years ago, we didn’t have the computers we have today. How many years ago? Twenty? Ten? Two?

Years ago, some of us would take great pains to put lots of information on a few pieces of paper that were in our notebooks (three ring binders, not laptop computers called “notebooks”) that we kept with us all the time. These few pieces of paper (two or three at the most) held amazing amounts of information. Little figures and keywords that reminded us what was what and where it was and who was who and … you get the idea.

Well, today we have electronic dashboards. They have all the information.

Not.

The screens that 98.6% of us have are still not big enough to hold the information that a single 8 1/2×11″ piece of paper held. But, but, but … nope. The screen still isn’t big enough. The screen still isn’t clear enough. The screen is much better than it used to be, but it isn’t there, yet.

Use a piece of paper or two. Paper still works well. Paper still works better than screens that aren’t big enough, yet.