I think it's possible with the rise of more and more "successful" dictatorships the Internet will become the domain of the state and we'll probably lose a lot very very quickly.
So... that happening.
So... that happening.
Seriously, though, there have been a lot of instances throughout history where scrolls and books have been burned at the order of the state. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the burning of the Library of Alexandria:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
So I don't think paper is necessarily a "better" alternative.