--- description: The paperless office is finally on its way, can you ‘outgrow’ drug addiction and more. title: The Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 19, 2016 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 19, 2016 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**The paperless office is — finally — on its way.**](http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-paperless-office-is-finally-on-its-way-1474221512 "undefined") By Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal **2\.** [**Can you ‘outgrow’ drug addiction?**](https://aeon.co/essays/most-drug-users-stop-without-help-so-long-as-they-re-not-poor "undefined") By Stacey McKenna in Aeon **3\.** [**Internet shutdowns are becoming the norm during political unrest — and that’s a problem.**](https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2016/09/16/internet-shutdowns-during-political-unrest-are-becoming-normal-and-it-should-worry-us/ "undefined") By Anita Gohdes in Political Violence at a Glance **4\.** [**Civil discussion is struggling. Let’s ask our youth for help.**](https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/civil-discussion-struggling-lets-ask-youth-help/ "undefined") By Rajiv Vinnakota at the Aspen Institute **5\.** [**For U.S. foreign aid to work, it must build trust between people and their governments.**](http://time.com/4494323/unga-foreign-aid/?xid=time%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter "undefined") By Ray Offenheiser in Time  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4499252/the-paperless-office-is-finally-on-its-way/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4499252/the-paperless-office-is-finally-on-its-way/"},"headline":"The Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way","datePublished":"2016-09-19T16:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:29.755Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4499252/the-paperless-office-is-finally-on-its-way/","keywords":["Innovation","2016 Election topic","Internet","Addiction","Foreign Aid","productivity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4499252/the-paperless-office-is-finally-on-its-way/","name":"The Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way"}}]}] ```