According to a recent article at Wired News, DMACC's West Des Moines campus has gone almost entirely wireless, paperless, and library-less. They've substituted a resource center for the library, required PDAs of all technology students, and supplied faculty with smartboards on which to write notes that can be downloaded into PDAs.

Dean Tony Paustian says, "We are heading toward a world where, instead of reading a bunch of Bill Gates' quotes, you want to have a video clip of him actually speaking that quote..."

I have to admit that I'm still a 'Social Life of Paper' adherent and that I find it much faster to read a bunch of quotes than watch someone say them, and in fact, Paustian also says that students still print e-documents out to read them and adds:

"Once they have surpassed that amount (of allotted printouts), they have to go back and add more copies to their account," Paustian said. "Otherwise, they'll print off reams of paper."

So, maybe not quite the end of paper, but an interesting experiment, nonetheless.