When is the last time you read a paper newspaper? Are you like many of us and get your information online through Google feeds and social media? If you are, then the anticipated death of news delivered in paper format is nothing new. For us, the question is not will it happen but when. To answer that question, globally-recognised futurist, entrepreneur, strategy advisor Ross Dawson has created the Newspaper Extinction Timeline.</p> <p>The Timeline addresses ?when newspapers in their current form will become insignificant? by country, beginning with the USA where he anticipates paper news to be all but dead by 2017. This is followed by the United Kingdom and Iceland, where the last gasp should occur sometime around 2019. After that, death continues to move around the globe, encompassing every country until the final death knoll is heard somewhere around 2040.</p> <p>To create the Newspaper Extinction Timeline, Mr Dawson used several factors, including global influences like: the falling cost of communications gadgets like tablets, mobile phone, and e-readers; the development of high-performance digital paper; and growing trends in advertising and monetisation for digital news. To establish where particular countries fall within the Timeline Dawson used national influences, like how fast the country adopts new technologies as well as economic and government development.</p> <p>For more information on how the Newspaper Extinction Timeline was developed or to access a download which will provide the Timeline chart, please visit Ross Dawson?s blog, ?Trends in the Living Networks?.