| "Let's wish a "Happy Birthday" to the copier and send it | | | | metal circuitry and needless waste of paper and toner |
| off to a nice retirement." | | | | ink can all just disappear and this Efficient CEO won't |
| Did you know that the photocopier, the original Xerox, | | | | be sad. Not for a minute. The joke in my company is, |
| turns 50 years old this year? Neither did I (maybe | | | | "Rich printed a document?!? Are you serious???". Why |
| because it's older than me). Reading a recent CNN | | | | print when you can read a screen. Why duplicate |
| article reminded me of the smell of mimeograph copies | | | | when you can share electronically. Why handle paper |
| we received in elementary school, and being blinded by | | | | when you can do it all online. |
| the flash bulb copiers in my college libraries, and | | | | Let's wish a "Happy Birthday" to the copier and send it |
| warming up my hands on fresh hot copies from the | | | | off to a nice retirement. Thank you Xerox for the |
| Xerox machine on my first corporate job. Oh, and I'm | | | | many wonderful innovations you've helped design, build |
| sure many of you are familiar with the frustrations of | | | | and bring to market. Our civilization honestly couldn't |
| instantly becoming a copier mechanic when the | | | | have progressed without you! It is great to see that |
| machines broke down. | | | | Xerox and their many competitors are now doing |
| All great things come to an end... and it's time for the | | | | more to eliminate paper through automation and they |
| photocopier machine (not the companies that produce | | | | too realize the value of retiring their earliest invention. |
| them) to go the way of the dinosaurs. The hulking | | | | Thanks for reading. |
| masses of metal, plastic, glass, wire, miles of precious | | | | |
