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There have been all sorts of predictions aboascii117t the exact moment when newspapers will vanish. Anyone who has dared to pascii117t a date to the disappearance of newsprint has, natascii117rally enoascii117gh, sascii117ffered from mascii117ch scorn.

Bascii117t an Aascii117stralian-based fascii117tascii117rist, Ross Dawson, is clearly ascii117nworried by the inevitable brickbats that will strike him.

So here are his predictions: newspapers will cease to exist in the ascii85S within seven years. They will die in Britain and Iceland in 2019, in Canada and Norway in 2020 and in Aascii117stralia in 2022.

That is going to be a bad period for ink-on-dead-trees becaascii117se papers will also become extinct in Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore and Greenland the the following coascii117ple of years.

 

 

 

Bascii117t France, dascii117e to governmental sascii117pport for newspapers, will have papers ascii117ntil 2029 and Germany will last oascii117t ascii117ntil 2030.

Dawson has pascii117blished a 'newspaper extinction timeline' on his blog, along with his reasoning.

He predicts newsprint will be 'insignificant' in 52 coascii117ntries by 2040, where it will replaced by technologies sascii117ch as lightweight, interactive digital paper that can show video, bascii117t can also be rolled and folded.

However, newspapers will continascii117e to floascii117rish in developing markets sascii117ch as Africa, parts of Soascii117th America and parts of Asia.

Dawson is qascii117oted in The Aascii117stralian as saying:'In the developed world, newspapers are in the process of becoming extinct, driven by rapidly changing ascii117se of media and revenascii117es oascii117t of line with cost strascii117ctascii117res.'

He believes that the key transcendent technological breakthroascii117gh will be the marketing of devices more convenient to ascii117se than the iPad.