Paperless office is pure fiction: report

I thought this was fascinating. Another example of how technology will NOT save you... I bought into the whole e-commerce 'revolution' at one point, and well it's no surprise when you think about it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/11/10/tech-paperless.html

From the article:

A new report by Statistics Canada smashes the myth of the paperless office, finding instead that paper consumption has doubled over 20 years even as Canadians adopt new technologies.
Per capita consumption of paper for printing and writing from the years 1983 to 2003 rose 93.6 per cent to 91.4 kilograms — about 20,000 pages per person.
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The rise in paper use was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the use of communications technologies such as the telephone and e-mail, the study released Friday found.
Although e-mail and overall internet use are high, Canadians are also setting records for telephone use, and postal and courier mail continues to rise, the report, titled Our Lives In Digital Times, found.