The surprisingly powerful paper industry has geared up to fight the inevitable and unavoidable government transition from sending out paper checks and notices to doing so electronically. It has a very ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about green businesses and how to help startups succeed. More than three decades into the information era, one would think ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. As of 2011, are we, as a nation, using significantly less ...

COMMENTARY--As a laboratory prototype, electronic paper has been around for some time, and demonstration of the technology usually lead to wild predictions about e-books and electronic newspapers. Now ...

Paperless office solutions reduce clutter, improve organization and streamline reporting. Here's how to create a paperless office.

In this commentary, Fred Bercovitch, wildlife conservation biologist at Kyoto University, challenges the conventional wisdom that a paperless workplace is more environmentally friendly than one is ...

As technology improves, the debate over whether to store medical records on paper or electronically grows. The issue is up for debate on a number of fronts, as both paper and electronic records offer ...

Hardly a day goes by when we do not receive a message from some organization proclaiming with great self-satisfaction that it is shifting to “paperless” communications. The message is often ...

Would you like a receipt? That's usually a simple question to answer. Most people want to make sure their purchases were rung up correctly or make returns easier. The tougher question these days is ...

Paperless Post, a company that has built a name for itself offering a cloud-based, visually engaging, way of sending people invites by email, is going retro: today the company is officially launching ...