What do you intend to replace it with? PDFs? If there's to be a universal "digital paper", it would need a lot of planning and agreement. With the amount of ch

What do you intend to replace it with? PDFs? If there's to be a universal "digital paper", it would need a lot of planning and agreement. With the amount of churn of stuff in technology these days I don't see anything stable enough to "replace paper" anytime soon. Thinking about this problem reminds me of the transition from linotype machines at the New York Times, to fully computerised systems in 1978. The computer systems are shown at the end of the wonderful documentary 'Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu' https://vimeo.com/127605643#t=24m55s https://vimeo.com/127605643#t=24m55s The amount of thought and preparation put into those systems, and the thought and preparation put into the change from ink-and-metal to pixels-and-bytes seems remarkable. Perhaps the (lack of) co-ordination between hardware and software today is to blame? Many industries have their IT problems handled with software-only solutions, generally with little thought for what the solution will look like 10--or even 5--years down the road. I would love to hear from people in industries like medical software, and flight software; where thought and preparation is--hopefully--given some budget and priority.