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With the advent of personal computers, the paperless society was predicted by the British-American information scientist Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster (1933–2013). It didn’t quite work out that way and the amount of paper consumed continues to increase every year. In fact since Lancaster’s prediction in 1978 the amount of paper and paperboard used has roughly tripled with much of the growth coming from developing economies.
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Baker, I. (2018). Paper. In: Fifty Materials That Make the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78766-4_28
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