Paperless Office?

Is there a convergence of ideas whose time has come?  John Quiggin (http://johnquiggin.com/) recently asserted that the paperless office is closer than we commonly believe.  The purchase and use of e-readers and e-books in Australia seems to have really taken off this year and every day, as we spend more and more time in social networking, information gathering, communication and artistic expression using screen-based activities, the need for paper is lessened.  Perhaps our literary-based culture is in the process of transforming into a visually-based one.  As we digitise everything we can for easy on-line access we create an on-line world that is multi-faceted: on the one hand personalised, immediate and accessible, on the other hand   universal, omnipresent, and inter-active, but  in either case a world  framed in ways that use much less paper.   This week in Tasmania we are finally reaching a peace settlement in the 30 year battle of the forests.  Wouldn't  it be ironic to reach this point only to find that the market for paper products is decreasing with every day that passes?