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The Social Life of Paper

Dennis G. Jerz / 20 Mar 2002

“Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten years ago.” —The Social Life of PaperNew Yorker)

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