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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a paperless society?
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Advantages: 
1. Eliminating the need to print documents reduces environmental pollution, saves trees, and conserves resources.
2. Paperless systems can provide more security for data since it is harder to copy or tamper with digital information.
3. Paperless systems can be easier to access and share as they are stored in digital form.Disadvantages:
1. The cost of purchasing and maintaining hardware such as scanners and printers may increase the expense of switching to a paperless system.
2. Paperless systems can make it difficult to find physical copies of documents if needed.
3. It can take time and effort to convert existing files from paper to digital format.