Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated
The generation of paper documents is dwindling, as the books and other papers of largely twentieth century vintage are being rapidly scanned and stored.
Grader A: partial
Mass scanning was real: Google had scanned over 12 million books by June 2010, about 9% of an estimated 130 million titles. But paper generation was not yet 'dwindling' in a dramatic sense in 2009, and most of the 20th-century print record was not yet scanned.
Test: Share of books scanned: about 9% (12M of 130M titles) by 2010, above 5% but far from most.
Grader B: hit
Google scanned 7M books by Nov 2008 and 12M by June 2010, a rapid digitization of twentieth-century print. Office paper use in developed markets was past its peak.
Test: Scale test: >7M books scanned by 2008, 20M by 2012.