The earliest known paper still in existence was made from rags about AD 150,discovered in Turkestan in a ruined tower of the Great Wall of China by Sir Aurel Stein in 1904.

For approximately 500 years the art of papermaking was confined to China, but in 610 it was introduced into Japan, and into Central Asia about 750.

At the beginning of January 1999, the Daily Telegraph carried out a most interesting report of a survey carried out on the Internet amongst leading scientists and mathematicians as to what they believed were the most significant developments of the last two millenia. One of those surveyed, Clifford Pickover, a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre responded as follows: "In 105 AD Ts'ai Lun reported the invention of paper to the Chinese Emporer. Ts'ai Lun was an official to the Chinese Imperial Court and I consider his early form of paper to be humanity's most important invention and progenitor of the Internet. Both paper and the Internet break the barriers of time and distance and permit unprecedented growth and opportunity. In the next decade, communities formed by ideas will be as strong as those formed by geography. The Internet will dissolve away nations as we know them today. Humanity becomes a single hive mind, with a group intelligence, as geography becomes putty in the hands of the Internet sculptor." - From Paper Technology, March 1999
 

Paper in Our Lives. Each person in the United States consumes approximately 675 pounds of paper a year. Where does it all go? You might be surprised at... http://www.ipst.edu/amp/pilives.html

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