The end of the paper era?

I was reading today that the Editor of the "New York Times" confessed in an interview that probably, in 5 years, this newspaper (one of the most known in the world) will be published only on line.
Apparently, this is not so surprising, if you think that many persons already read the news mostly via web. This is due, in my opinion, to many factors, first to the simplicity in accessing internet, second to the possibility to have a complete look of the news in a quick time, and third to the "lightness" of the news (not too dispersive when you read them).
But I think that this can be the first step to what I consider is the real advantage for all of us: the freedom of getting informed. In other words, if we have the possibility to read any news form any newspaper just accessing the web, and eventually compare them, we can really choose how to get informed, and how to understand the facts which happen around us. Only many different points of view can help us in discerning what is the "truth" and what is not or, at least, in creating a personal opinion.
So, it's probably starting a real new era of the information...with the disappointment of the paper's lovers....