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Definitely not just anecdotal. I think people on HN might be flabbergasted by how many businesses in industries worth billions still largely operate with paper.

Problem with staying ahead of the curve is that you cannot see how huge the curve is.

It's a lot harder to do discovery on 100 tons of paper in a vault than on ten tons of disk drives.

I have often thought it would be cynically useful to use a font that makes it hard to OCR text for exactly this reason.

Programs are now better than humans at that, as the CAPTCHA people have discovered the hard way.

Worked at a sales department in 2010, my office (or closet) was in front of the main A3 printer. It was running dusk till dawn. Most of the employee despise computers (partially for good reasons: bad IT contracts and not tailored tools and devices => rageprint).

Most of the prints had a lifespan of 1 hours before being thrown out. Mostly scratchpad for too large spreadsheets.

Highest margins in the company. Thanks for validating my choice not to buy an earthquake policy.