Paper is too useful to ever completely disappear–and some think the scenario is even more sanguine than that–but could spying concerns mean a comeback for the dead trees? I think not, but not everyone agrees.  From Michael Lewis at the Toronto Star:

“Eugene Kaspersky said governments and corporations had already begun to elevate security concerns but revelations of U.S. spying activity contained in documents leaked over the summer by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden added a new sense of urgency.

‘Big enterprises were even talking about back-to-paper scenarios because of espionage attacks,’ Kaspersky said Wednesday after the company released is 2014 cyber threat forecast.

‘Enterprises, governments — they are really serious about extra levels of security, extra regulation, disconnecting their services from the Internet, maybe even getting some processes back to paper,’ Kaspersky said.

‘It’s a very visible step backward.'”