Pen And Paper: Is Tech The Missinq Link?(Brief Article)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, October, 2000 by Maciag, Gregory A.

It was 10 years ago that ACORD first considered using a pen-based computing device to complete an ACORD form. In fact, we worked with the Insurance Services Office on a prototype and used it for demonstrations, but the experiment didn't pan out. Technology issues and user-friendly applications have always been evasive for pen computing platforms.

Although touch-screen devices that enable pen input are proliferating, what about devices that more closely mirror the pen and paper that we use all the time? Most would say that the goal is to eliminate paper, and that paper-based notes that are not digitized are useless. But let's look at paper from two views. Paper is used to see and record information. Viewing information on a screen, a tablet, or on my e-book...

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