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I'm hearing a lot of excuses to keep paper around... but not legitimate reasons. Fact of the matter is, electronics can do all of the tasks mentioned above. Electronic whiteboards. Document sharing, across a room, or a continent. Realtime collaboration. Version tracking. Transfer to multiple platforms. Conversion to multiple formats. Romantic ideals aside, electronics can not only do the same things paper can do... electronics can do those things better, and more things besides.
Paper may be good for a lot of things... wiping your behind, for instance... but when it comes to communicating information, ink on paper is the last millennium's technology, as relevant to the future as the pony express.
No, it will not completely disappear. But it will be relegated to a niche technology and used only in those increasingly rare occasions when efficiency, immediacy, practicality and utility do not matter.
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