[lobf]

"The computer will never be as important to society as the copier," -Xerox executive, quoted from The Innovators.

[JustSomeNobody]

There's a lot of truth to that. Think of just how much paperwork healthcare, government, banking, etc. all generate.

[lobf]

Things that computers are gradually making irrelevant, no? Can a copy machine eventually supplant computers? Of course not. Copy machines don't have a fraction of the functionality of a computer obviously.

[JustSomeNobody]

My point is that computers are most certainly not making paper irrelevant. If anything, there's more paper now than ever.