Decades of technological innovations have transformed almost every area of business, but little has changed in how we copy and paste information. Many of us are still manually moving information from one place to another using CTRL+C and CTRL+V, which were invented by Xerox computer scientists Larry Tesler and Tim Mott nearly 50 years ago.

Copy and paste was indeed revolutionary, allowing workers for the first time to transfer information and data between static documents, and it soon became…