Paper's not going to die, any more than in its infancy it was stopped by laws meant to preserve the hegemony of parchment.

Like you I'm glad to live in a digital, hyperlinked age where technology can so often obviate distance, whether social or geographic. Paper can obviate those, and temporal distance as well.

Someone asked me once what electronic performance support was. I said, "A job aid with chips." I wasn't completely serious, though I do think the hyper-technological ("Everyone must learn to code--preferably by Thursday!") could benefit from a few days or weeks out of range of a power cord.