The technology feels like a step backward, from big mechanical machines using nineteenth-century technology to a new system that involves people copying information by hand from one piece of paper to another.

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"This one piece of paper could make this Parliament more responsive to voters' demands while helping this government better explain the spending decisions it has chosen to make, " Mr Gummer told MPs.

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He said "not one piece of headed letter paper" would be wasted in the name change.

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No one expressly designed it, no one sat down with a blank piece of paper and designed a code.

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As the proverb says, a journey starts with a single step so begin with the pile closest to you and just set aside one hour at a time to go through each piece of paper and decide immediately whether you will recycle it, toss it, delegate it, file it or deal with it right away or later.

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If you really must keep one credit card in your wallet, wrap a piece of red paper around it and write in big, bold letters EMERGENCY.

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Like an office printer that puts 2D digital files on a piece of paper, a 3D printer creates components by depositing thin layers of material one after another using a digital blueprint until the exact component required has been created.

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