>You see by all futurists accounts the Internet should have already done away with print media, but we just can't let go of our paper. The economist had an art

>You see by all futurists accounts the Internet should have already done away with print media, but we just can't let go of our paper. The economist had an article on this, but it's behind the paywall now. http://www.isegoria.net/2008/10/not-dead-just-resting.htm http://www.isegoria.net/2008/10/not-dead-just-resting.htm Gist -- "American office workers’ use of paper has actually been in decline since 2001. What changed? The explanation seems to be sociological rather than technological. A new generation of workers, who have grown up with e-mail, word processing and the internet, feel less of a need to print documents out than their older colleagues did."