It's interesting that for decades, technologists were stubbornly predicting that the paperless office was just around the corner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

It's interesting that for decades, technologists were stubbornly predicting that the paperless office was just around the corner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office These predictions were famously overoptimistic. Paradoxically, paper consumption went up for a long time instead, because printers became cheaper or better, and wysiwyg word processors made it far easier than type writers to produce complex documents, with pictures and diagrams and tables. But approximately since the smartphone era, printer usage indeed seems in sharp decline. The paperless office, at last, became reality. Just a few decades later than expected.