As the print magazine and newspaper industry has come to know over the past decade, the primary mediums by which people do business and find entertainment have entirely changed, with digital information assuming the role paper once played in society. Between mobile phones, wireless internet, iThis, iThat and the other, printers, and sadly shredders alongside them, are quickly becoming a relics of a bygone era.Even technology that once promised to increase global shredability has become obsolete within a much shorter than expected time frame. Need paper to print high quality photos at home? Why bother, just upload your photos to Facebook or get one of those snazzy electronic picture frames. Sure, the occasional grandparent my like something tangible to hang on the refrigerator, but try to shred that puppy and you’re looking 4 generations of hell coming at you, not to mention legal action by the AARP.And it’s not just photos. Back in the glory days people used to actually print out articles they thought you might be interested in. Even after the advent of email, entertaining stories were often put to paper and passed around at home and in offices, largely thanks to the stigma of junk mail. Now, simply posting a funny story anecdote to a social media accound, taking its digital form from its originating website, allows a host of friends and family far and wide to all peruse intriguing finds at their leisure. What’s it to us? That’s a lot of excess paper suddenly out of the discard pile. The trend seems to be that in this new age only the most important of documents actually make their way to parchment, whether it be binding contracts, summons, timeless artwork, legislative bills, all of which put any aspiring shredder in danger of vengeful rage or legal actions. (more…)