Remember the idea of the
paperless office? Was there any truth in that? Hell no. I'm still knee
deep in the stuff, carrying vast quantities of processed tree around with me in
my bag and buying a tidy ream of it daily inscribed with the torrent of news.
Paper 1; trees 0.
A colleague of mind recently spotted a website that follows an
extinction deadline of those things near and dear to us. According to Ross
Dawson's Trends in the Living Networks blog, retirement will be long gone by
2016, coins will lie unused around 2033 and glaciers (this one could be true)
will be a distant chilly memory by 2037. Though for those of us in the
printing sector I end on a high note. according to Dawson, newspapers in their
physical format remain long into the future before finally expiring in 2049.
Long live print.