Will the critical legal documents of our lives ever go completely digital? A few banks are ready to push along this possibility. In October of 2000, FleetBoston, the big bank in New England, started offering online safe-deposit “boxes”. I haven’t found any verification, but physical safe-deposit boxes have probably been offered by banks ever since banks have existed. Bank buildings are already fortified to store valuables, and customers trust them to hold their money, why not their important papers as well (and long ago those important papers were their only “money”)? People are becoming more comfortable with the security of online banking. Will people be comfortable with their legal documents in virtual form only? Of course, a digital safe deposit box is not entirely about the elimination of paper; it’s valuable for any documents you may want to lock up and back up.