21 Outdated Office Technologies… and What Replaced Them, slide 8

Replacement: Laptops and Tablets

Laptops and tablets have replaced all of these technologies easily. The typewriter and paper were wiped out with the first version of Microsoft Word. Desktop displays now connect directly to your laptop, which has twice the power of the computer equivalent of ten years ago.

Tablets provide the same needs, though only some can be used as a replacement for a system unit. Email programs, illustration applications, spreadsheets, and presentation software has continued to decimate the needs for analog paper.

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