Oh, they'll find a way. Let me tell you mylar papercuts leave nice scars.
Yeah but the PCB inside the paperless device would be as sharp as a paper, not to mention the component thin legs such as electrolytic capacitors (although the majority of electronic components are tiny blocks surface-mounted, there are components that need to be welded in a THT (through-hole) fashion because their electrical contents can't fit the small space of a SMD).
I doubt society will go fully paperless, there are times when you need a thing that can be crushed, folded, whatever and doesn't run out of battery, so unless e-ink technology develops in a very specific way I don't think every eventually will be replaced, and even without purely functional applications I think art would never ever go fully paperless for many data security (leaking art before it's complete), economic (things are more expensive when they're limited in supply, and making either legal or illegal copies of digital things is so much easier) and sentimental reasons (it's just nicer to have something physical) reasons
People will start cutting themselves on razorthin smartphones instead.
"I got a razorthinsmartphonecut at the office today" sounds a bit funny
Society will never go fully paperless. If we would have it would have been around 1998. Though I suppose depending on which apocalypse scenario gets us, there will be a time when paper cuts are a rarity only suffered by the few brave souls who scavenge the ruins of the Before Times.
-98?
How?
Mobile data connections were dogshit even here in Finland up until late 00's.
By the way, anyone ever got a bread crust cut? I did. On my own baked bread.
I haven't, but I've baked enough bread to know that sounds awful
this is honestly a solid shower thought👍
must've had a great shower✨
Great except for my shampoo irritating the paper cut on my finger 😄
I can see where your thought came from😄
hope it heals quickly!
Is this a think skin problem im too calloused to understand?
Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.
Cardboard cuts make papercuts look like..... papercuts.
I'm clumsy enough that I've got a "paper cut" from aluminum foil while preparing dinner.
I had to send mail to the government recently and got a freaking paper cut on my tongue as I licked the envelope glue to seal it. 😬
Are the cuts from packaging different then?
Never heard of cardboard cuts.....
if a papercut is like being cut with a switchblade, a cardboard cut is like being cut with a saw.
Cardboard cuts are absolutely a thing, like a paper cut on steroids.
I used to work in a warehouse and spent most of my day opening, resealing, making, and breaking down boxes. Spend enough time around them and the boxes will get you.
Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there's plenty of opportunities.
I can see in the future paper cuts becoming an Olympic sport, like sword fighting. People of the future will stand in a ring with two pieces of paper and will try to make a cut on their opponent's piece of artificially grown skin, placed at the center of their chest. People will cheer as the athletes try to cut their opponent with an ancient piece of technology
Aren't they already?
I got my pet meds handed to me in a paper bag and somehow managed to give myself a paper cut getting the cat into the car while holding this bag. It was the first paper cut I've had in years, and my reaction was "I wonder if this is still recyclable." Still better than plastic bags, I suppose.
This post was inspired by me wondering how I got one. I'm pretty sure it was from opening junk mail, one of the few ways I interact with paper anymore.
