Laurel Brunner: Printing out the internet?

It sounds like a joke, but British university students have calculated how many printed pages it would take to print all public information on the web. They multiplied the number of Wikipedia articles by 15 which made 71 million pages. According to students of the University of Leicester this would require 8,337 trees.
Read Laurel´s Verdigris blog on our articles page to see what is wrong with this calculation and why it does seem worthwhile to do such calculations.