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What does the future hold for paper?

Who reads the news from an actual paper these days anyway? Computers, e-mail, smart phones and Kindle are a few of the many steps we are taking towards a paperless future. Will paper ever be completely obsolete?

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recycled trees seriously, folks.

I think it will become more of a novelty. We'll still have bookstores and journals and gift cards, etc. Unfortunately, junk mail as well :) But hopefully we will use less and less as the "paperless office" increases.

I sincerely hope not. To me there's nothing like snuggling up with a real book, and I get great pleasure from writing longhand with a pencil or calligraphic pen. Plus, I love to draw, and make paper, and make blank books from paper. I don't think I'm the only person in the world who feels this way, either.

It will never completely disappear, but it will gradually be used less and less.

With apologies to all the folks who make a living making paper, I glibly rely "hopefully, not much!" I'd love for technology to get to a point where paper is used for entertainment, amusement, etc., rather than necessity.

They're making a sort of reusable paper, like a paper thin Kindle, essentially. The pages would be treated with microscopic bubbles that have small Buckminster-Fullerines inside that are black on one side and white on the other, and orient themselves depending on their polarity. Like electric paper. Sounds cool.

i sometimes read the news from a paper. i mean, of course electronical devices will take over more and more, but after all, paper will still be an important medium. i believe, for example, that books will be on paper for a long time, if not forever. paper's not gonna die.

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What does the future hold for paper?

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recycled trees seriously, folks.

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I think it will become more of a novelty. We'll still have bookstores and journals and gift cards, etc. Unfortunately, junk mail as well :) But hopefully we will use less and less as the "paperless office" increases.

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It will never completely disappear, but it will gradually be used less and less.

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With apologies to all the folks who make a living making paper, I glibly rely "hopefully, not much!" I'd love for technology to get to a point where paper is used for entertainment, amusement, etc., rather than necessity.

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philg

i sometimes read the news from a paper. i mean, of course electronical devices will take over more and more, but after all, paper will still be an important medium. i believe, for example, that books will be on paper for a long time, if not forever. paper's not gonna die.

What does the future hold for paper?

recycled trees seriously, folks.

I think it will become more of a novelty. We'll still have bookstores and journals and gift cards, etc. Unfortunately, junk mail as well :) But hopefully we will use less and less as the "paperless office" increases.

It will never completely disappear, but it will gradually be used less and less.

With apologies to all the folks who make a living making paper, I glibly rely "hopefully, not much!" I'd love for technology to get to a point where paper is used for entertainment, amusement, etc., rather than necessity.

i sometimes read the news from a paper. i mean, of course electronical devices will take over more and more, but after all, paper will still be an important medium. i believe, for example, that books will be on paper for a long time, if not forever. paper's not gonna die.

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