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Had a talk with a GC in Austin who swears paper blueprints are still faster than iPads on site
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sarah_patel2513d ago
Paper never lags or runs out of battery, but good luck searching through 500 sheets for one detail.
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tylerj2213d ago
Nah, I actually see it the opposite way. When you have 500 sheets of paper, flipping through them is way faster than scrolling through a PDF on a slow device. Your eyes can scan a whole page at once, while on a screen you're stuck squinting at one small section. Plus, paper lets you spread everything out on a desk and see the big picture at a glance. Digital search is great if you know the exact word you're looking for, but sometimes you need to see the context around a detail to make sense of it. A stack of paper gives you that context instantly without fighting a search algorithm.
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It's the same with my mechanic preferring a paper manual over a phone screen, some things just stick.
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