Papers stapled together. The packet. These manifestations of the need for instructions, for recipes, were the printer’s raison d’être. The printer needed a reason to stand there all day, otherwise what would the printer do? The printer needed work. Otherwise the printer might not have a reason to exist. So the packets had to be made, and when the staples started to go in automatically, the printer knew there would be a problem. Automation was not good for the printer. The printer could feel the slippery slope becoming steeper. Printing may have seemed necessary, like a task that would be a whole job for a printer, but that might go away when more things could be done without intervention. The printer needed interventions as a reason to be. Fast forward to the days of email, to the days of email signatures that ask people to think twice before calling for a printer because the screen could do the whole job, without even stapling. And certainly without packets. The packet became the PDF. And the printer was without work, without use, without electricity. The printer’s name is Jeremy, and he has a family.
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Roman Ryan 