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As much as I love reading on e-ink and having all my reading in one place, I don't think paper itself will ever go away. There will surely be many converts to e-ink, but in the end, there is a psychological quality about paper that cannot be replaced.
It's the same as if you were to talk about regular mail versus email. People said regular mail would die, yet here it is, years later. The reason is that when you hold a piece of printed ink on a piece of paper, there is an extra weight associated with that you cannot get from "digital ink." It seems more impactful. Compare the feeling of receiving an email with that of receiving a handwritten letter from a friend. There is no comparison.
As for other things, disseminating documents, articles, etc...clearly digital wins in this case as we don't really pride single articles in a newspaper as much as we do a Charles Dickens classic.
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