Improv Electronics has calculated that
trillions of sheets of paper could be saved if the Boogie Board was used instead of note pads by a whole age group of U.S. school children for the life of the device (over 50,000 screen erasures).
In 1949, when Claude Shannon took a
sheet of paper and penciled his outline
of the measures
of information, the scale went from tens
of bits to hundreds to thousands, millions, billions, and
trillions.