Reminded me of the way, that while when the printing press was invented, there is widespread knowledge of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible, allowing great numbers to be produced, there was also the application to accounts, and their maintenance. The development early of standard 'forms', which increased the efficiency, and reliability of record keeping. There is something 'tactile' about money that means some of the 'magic' disappears when it is converted to a data. This sentimentality is disappearing as more and more people are finding no need for cash. The same with inventory. The way people are beginning to think is allowing the transfer. Cash now often means a Credit card, an account ...

Reminded me of the way, that while when the printing press was invented, there is widespread knowledge of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible, allowing great numbers to be produced, there was also the application to accounts, and their maintenance. The development early of standard 'forms', which increased the efficiency, and reliability of record keeping. There is something 'tactile' about money that means some of the 'magic' disappears when it is converted to a data. This sentimentality is disappearing as more and more people are finding no need for cash. The same with inventory. The way people are beginning to think is allowing the transfer. Cash now often means a Credit card, an account balance. There are some things for which all hard copy will disappear, and as cost savings become evident, all that can become virtual will do so. What is and will be interesting, is the way changes in thinking and technology is taking us to a future we could not have imagined. Plans are for when you have a reasonable grasp of the situation. It was first a case of believing that we had some control over the way the internet was going to develop. The internet went off before the starting gun, and we're still trying to catch up. Over the years the way people use the internet has been recorded, and cataloged. There is more of an idea of what we are dealing with. Now for the first time we are seeing how humanity relate on a vast network,
Twenty years ago if you asked if people whether they would trust a virtual vendor from across the world, on the strength of a promise on a web page, they might have been doubtful. Today it is common practice, for even incidental items, with a history that has enough fine detail, to establish virtual inventory protocols.