According to US researchers, 800MB of data is produced per year, for each person in the world.
Whoa.
Their study found that information stored on paper, film, magnetic and optical disks has doubled since 1999.
You can blame it on all the digital devices if you like, but the amount of data collected on paper has risen 43% in just the last three years. Perhaps data begets data. The more digital information we produce, leads to more data collected on paper.