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Speaking as a huge paper consumer for business purposes (corporate lawyer) I sit firmly on the hopeful side that tablets are going to largely displace paper. Three or more years ago now I replaced my ever growing collection of paperbacks with an ebook reader. When the Sony 600 came out I upgraded to take advantage of the note taking features. It did about half of what I wanted in a mediocre fashion - that is, I used it to take handwritten notes at work and drop them into my one note files but the small screen didn't make document review and annotation feasible. Recently I acquired an Ipad and it does everything I wanted the Sony to do and does it better from a paperless office perspective. The iAnnotate app is brilliant and very near perfect. Note Taker facilitates handwritten meeting notes ably (until something with OCR) comes along, and Whiteboard is ideal for mapping out ideas on the fly. The only quibble is with Apple's insistence on using iTunes as the wired document transfer vehicle - my life would obviously be easier if I could access files in a more harddrive like environment without having to jump through iTunes hoops. At this point however it is a small price to pay for being able to carry a huge statute with me on the fly together with my file info for meetings and homework.
In my experience it has already made a difference and as hardware and software continue to grow that influence will only continue to grow.
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