Blank Envelopes and Technological Change - By: Paul Wise

Wait til computers really take over! Forget blank envelopes! You won't find them anymore. All those science fiction movies that depict a world taken over by computers show something really diabolical, but real life is at once more imaginative and less exciting (so far!). On the other hand, it's exactly that kind of a nightmare for those whose livelihoods have been lost on account of computer automation!

Technology displacing workers and whole sectors of the economy is nothing new, of course, and blank envelopes are often made overseas these days anyway - and even then, it will be machines that do the making. Whereas making paper was once a craft in its own right, it's all done automatically by machines now. But even these overseas workers will be thrown out of work soon enough thanks to all the wireless communications that's revolutionized just about every facet to how people interact.

Is there anything better than firing off an e-mail or text message at practically the speed of light? No printing required, no postage to deal with, no trip to the corner mailbox, and absolutely no waiting whatsoever for an answer! Well, not unless one's corresponding with a sloth in Australia!

The need for blank envelopes is at the lowest point yet. The situation has gotten so that they are often hard to find, and one frequently has to resort to a specialty store in order to obtain some. And it's all due to the computer revolution that's totally changed just about every aspect of our lives. It's a far cry from the first envelopes used by man, which by our modern reckoning resemble pottery in practically every which way, made as they are of clay and requiring drying and even baking to be "sealed" - never mind the breaking necessary to be opened!

So technological change is nothing new, nothing new at all. It is, moreover, dramatic in impact but not necessarily in that immediate, visceral way of fiction. Hence, the actual year of 2001 gives us unmanned drones and the worldwide web while the film 2001 envisioned moon bases, space travel, and artificial intelligence.

So no more blank envelopes. You can bet the family jewels that that will be the most dramatic impact of our advancing technology. People won't know what an envelope is in just another three or four generations!

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Author Paul Wise recommends PrintingAndMailingDirect.com for blank envelopes and any other time you need to look good on paper!

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